Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday launched a scathing attack on former Prime Minister, late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, alleging that “separatism and extremism in Kashmir stemmed from his policies.”
Adityanath said the first Prime Minister of India made the issue so “controversial” that it continues to affect the country even now. He made these comments during an event commemorating the 75th death anniversary of the country’s first Home Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
Known as the Iron Man of India, Patel united more than 560 princely states into the Union of India, including Junagadh and the Deccan (now Hyderabad), which were considered major challenges prickly thorns in the process.
“All the Hindu princely states of India agreed to become part of the Republic of India, but the Nawab of Junagadh and the Nizam of Hyderabad refused. Both had to be integrated into India. Through a bloodless revolution, and solely due to Sardar Patel’s wisdom, these two princely states became part of India,” Adityanath said.
He added that the fate of Jammu and Kashmir was uncertain at the time of Independence. “So, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru took the matter into his own hands. It was his policy that turned J&K into a controversy, which is still affecting the country.”
However, in 2019, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Jammu and Kashmir was fully integrated into the Union of India by the abrogation of Article 370, fulfilling the vision of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Syama Prasad Mukherjee.
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