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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).

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"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).

"The English had lost interest in India; they wanted to leave India fragmented into pieces."

- PM Shri Narendra Modi in #MannKiBaat (October 2018).

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"Time Magazine had opined that hovering over India then were the dangers of problems like partition, violence, food scarcity, price rise and power-politics."

- PM Shri Narendra Modi in #MannKiBaat (October 2018).

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"The magazine further observed that amidst the plethora of problems, if there was anyone who possessed the capability to unite the country and heal wounds,

it was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel."

- PM Shri Narendra Modi.

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"The story also brings to the fore, other aspects of the life of the Iron Man of India… the manner in which he had managed relief operations during the Ahmedabad floods in the 1920s; the way he steered the Bardoli Satyagrah."

- PM Shri Narendra Modi.

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"Such was his sense of honesty & commitment that the farmer, the worker right up to the industrialist trusted him with full faith."

- PM Shri Narendra Modi in #MannKiBaat (October 2018).

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"Gandhiji considered #SardarPatel as the only one capable of finding a lasting solution to the vexed issue of the states and asked him to act."

- PM Shri Narendra Modi in #MannKiBaat (October 2018).

"Sardar Patel formulated solutions one by one, weaving the warp & weft of unity on the axis of a single thread.

He ensured the merger of all princely states with the Dominion of India."

- PM Shri Narendra Modi in #MannKiBaat (October 2018).

#SardarPatel

"Whether Junagadh, Hyderabad, Travancore, or for that matter the princely states of Rajasthan, if we are able to see a United India now, it was entirely on account of the sagacity & strategic wisdom of Sardar Patel."

- PM Shri Narendra Modi.

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