Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur stated on Monday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking ahead Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s imaginative and prescient of ‘Ek Bharat (One India)’ with ‘Shreshtha Bharat (India is the very best)’ think about a India is split into lots of of princely states. There have been no Patels within the states.
He stated, “In the previous, just one household was promoted as if your complete freedom battle was fought by them, however historical past is witness that wherever they intervened, the world didn’t grow to be a part of India in fact. may,” he stated. Delivering the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture broadcast on All India Radio (AIR).
Touching on the position of the primary Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru within the merger of Jammu and Kashmir with India, Thakur stated, “The country remembers Patel for the integration… the responsibility of Jammu and Kashmir was taken by Nehru. Article 370 Jammu- The integration of Kashmir has been a big hindrance… by abrogating Article 370 and abolishing Article 35A, the Modi government has realized Patel’s dream.”
The Information and Broadcasting Minister stated Patel was a visionary and it was unlucky that he didn’t get sufficient alternatives to take the nation ahead after independence.
“The leaders of that point made some errors with respect to China… Patel may have foreseen the hazard coming from China. In a letter to Nehru on 7 November 1948, he stated, ‘The Chinese authorities was not dedicated to its peaceable intentions’. Trying to mislead us by making a declaration. It is a pity that we’ve got upset the Tibetans who’ve reposed their religion in us.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
