Menon stepped in and ensured Sardar's inclusion." Nehru did not intend to make Sardar Patel a member of his first cabinet until V.P. In a review of the book for Business Standard, journalist Karan Thapar writes, "Narayani more or less confirms something about which there has been a lot of speculation. Menon played a key role in overseeing the Partition and integration of princely states into the Indian Union and worked closely with Sardar Patel in the period after independence. Menon, a British-era civil servant, who was political reforms commissioner to multiple viceroys. Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India, is expected to trigger more debate on the 'Patel vs Nehru' issue. In February 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the Lok Sabha, “Had Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel been the first prime minister, a part of Kashmir would not have been under control of Pakistan.” The critics of Nehru and his successors in the Nehru-Gandhi family allege that Sardar Patel's legacy had been ignored by successive Congress governments.Ī new book by historian and analyst Narayani Basu, V.P. Patel was independent India's first home minister.Ī plethora of BJP leaders have made the claim the country would have taken a different path if Sardar Patel was the first prime minister. A key argument that many critics of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, have made over the years is that India would have been a different country if Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was independent India's first leader.
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