An interesting anecdote about #SardarPatel, shared by PM Shri Narendra Modi in one of the editions of #MannKiBaat (October 2018)!
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"Six months or so before Independence, on the 27th of January, 1947, the world – famous international Magazine ‘Time’ had a photograph of Sardar Patel on the cover page of that edition."
- PM Shri Narendra Modi in #MannKiBaat (October 2018).
"In their lead story, they had depicted a map of India; it was nowhere close to what the map looks like now. It was the map of an India that was divided into myriad fragments. There existed over 550 princely states."
- PM Shri Narendra Modi in #MannKiBaat (October 2018).
It was #OnThisDay in 2018, that the pride of India, the tallest statue in the world, #StatueOfUnity was inaugurated by PM Shri Narendra Modi against the backdrop of the dramatic Satpura and Vindhyachal hills in Kevadia, Gujarat.
The statue has been built as an ode to the Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the first home minister of independent India and the architect of independent India.
The colossal statue which towers over the River Narmada, is a tribute to the leader who placed people’s welfare first.
The Statue of Unity overlooks the vast surrounds and the river basin of the Narmada River and the sprawling Sardar Sarovar dam.