Nehru crippled Sardar Patel memorial plan

While speaking at the inauguration of the redesigned Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Musuem at Ahmedabad, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated that there were more areas of convergence between Nehru and Sardar Patel than divergence. Singh also took delight in the fact that he was a member of Indian National Congress, the party Patel had belonged to. Fine words! But the Prime Minister needs to be reminded that Nehru had stymied the Congress Working Committee’s (CWC) proposal to raise a national memorial to Sardar Patel.

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