Manish Tewari trips on Patel-Nehru chronicler

It is Information & Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari, and not BJP leader LK Advani, who got the facts wrong on former bureaucrat MKK Nair. Advani had in his blog quoted extensively from Nair’s autobiography, The Story of an Era Told Without Ill Will, to claim that India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had described Sardar Patel a “total communalist” when as the Home Minister he had favoured military action to rein in the defiant ruler of Hyderabad after Independence.

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