'Jawaharlal, do you want Kashmir or do you want to give it away'

After raking up a controversy over Jawaharlal Nehru calling Sardar Patel a "total communalist," BJP veteran LK Advani on Thursday took the Nehru versus Patel debate further by saying India's first PM was reluctant to send the Army to Kashmir in 1947 even as Pakistani troops approached, but the home minister (Patel) prevailed over him. Quoting from an interview of Sam Manekshaw (then a colonel) by senior journalist Prem Shankar Jha, Advani said in his latest blog that as the tribesmen, supported by Pakistani...

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