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Mar 20 4 tweets 1 min read
1. While Nehru rightly gets a lot of flak for his monstrous blunders,especially on China, V. K. Krishna Menon was perhaps d worst possible individual to ever preside over d Defence Ministry.The other appointment that rivals this one was Maulana Azad's as the Education Minister.
2. Menon's communist credentials, utter disdain for the army, nepotism and insufferable hubris cost Bharat a lot. The more I read on him, the more I am inclined to hold him primarily responsible for the 1962 debacle. Independent Bharat was cursed with such a cabinet. Imagine.
3. It must have been a nightmare for leaders like Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to survive in such a toxic cabinet where the rot started from the top with Nehruvian lackies all over the place, including in critical appointments in the armed forces.
4. It's nothing short of a miracle that Bharat survived successive Congress regimes. Textbook example of chalti ka Naam Gaadi. Unbelievable.

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