Is Modi’s fascination for Sardar Patel new and phony? - Part I

All hell broke loose when Modi announced that the Gujarat government was going to honour the memory of Sardar Patel by building the tallest statue in the world, to be named “Statue of Unity” – wrought with melted iron from the used agricultural implements of farmers collected from each and every village of India -- to honour the role of Patel in bringing together hundreds of princely states to be part of the Union of India. The Congress Party and its allies went ballistic, alleging that Modi was misusing the name of a “Congress leader” for partisan ends, that Modi’s new found love for Patel was phony.

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