'Sardar Patel Wanted PoK Back But He Was Stopped...': PM Modi's Veiled Dig At Nehru

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Last Updated:May 27, 2025, 12:34 IST

PM Modi In Gujarat: PM Modi said Sardar Patel believed subject enactment should not cease until PoK was reclaimed by India.

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PM Modi In Gujarat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking successful Gujarat’s Gandhinagar today, asserted that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the designer of India’s integration, held a wide and resolute stance connected Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) that was yet ignored.

PM Modi said that Sardar Patel believed subject enactment shouldn’t cease until PoK was reclaimed by India. However, successful a thinly veiled jab astatine the decisions made Jawaharlal Nehru, PM Modi stressed that Sardar Patel’s “counsel was yet disregarded."

Drawing a nonstop nexus betwixt the 1947 partition of India and the Kashmir conflict, PM Modi asserted that a important accidental to reclaim PoK was missed owed to a disregard for Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s steadfast stance.

He said, “In 1947, erstwhile Maa Bharti was partitioned, ‘katni chahiye thi zanjeerein par kaat di gayi bhujayein’." Lamenting that the state was divided into 3 parts, and “on that precise night, the archetypal violent onslaught took spot successful Kashmir", the Prime Minister accused Pakistan of seizing “a portion of Maa Bharti… utilizing terrorists successful the sanction of Mujahideen."

PM Modi emphasized that if these militants had been eliminated then, the concern would beryllium different. He further claimed, “Sardar Patel’s privation was that until we get PoK, our equipped forces should not stop. But nary 1 listened to him and present we person been facing this (terrorism) for the past 75 years. Pahalgam was besides an illustration of it."

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel And His Stand On Kashmir

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, known arsenic the “Iron Man of India," was a pivotal fig successful India’s conflict for independency and successful the challenging years instantly pursuing it. As India’s archetypal Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, his astir monumental accomplishment was the integration of implicit 560 princely states into the Indian Union done a operation of persuasive diplomacy, strategical negotiations, and, erstwhile necessary, steadfast action.

In October 1947, conscionable aft India’s independence, thousands of tribal fighters from Pakistan, backed by its military, launched an penetration of Jammu and Kashmir, aiming to forcibly annex the princely authorities earlier its accession to India. These “Mujahideen" committed wide atrocities arsenic they precocious towards Srinagar. Faced with this crisis, Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir sought subject assistance from India, which was granted lone aft helium signed the Instrument of Accession connected October 26, 1947. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel played a important behind-the-scenes role, advocating for an contiguous and steadfast subject response. Indian troops were swiftly airlifted to Srinagar connected October 27, successfully pushing backmost the invaders and marking the opening of the First Indo-Pak War, which yet led to a ceasefire successful January 1949 and the de facto part of Kashmir, creating PoK.

Sardar Patel powerfully desired implicit instrumentality of PoK to India and openly expressed his vexation implicit the handling of the 1947 Kashmir conflict. Angered by Pakistan’s invasion, helium advocated for a decisive subject effect to reclaim each of Kashmir and regretted the determination to instrumentality the contented to the United Nations. He believed the Indian Army was halted prematurely, erstwhile reportedly stating, “If I had handled Kashmir, we would not person this problem." While Kashmir argumentation was chiefly managed by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who, influenced by Lord Mountbatten and planetary pressure, agreed to the UN-mediated ceasefire, Sardar Patel viewed leaving portion of Kashmir nether Pakistani power arsenic a important strategical mistake and a persistent situation for India.

PM Modi Takes A Jibe At Pakistan

Taking a jibe astatine Pakistan, PM Modi said, “No substance however steadfast the assemblage is, if adjacent a azygous thorn pricks it, the full assemblage remains troubled. Now, we person decided that we volition region that thorn."

The PM besides articulated India’s dual overseas argumentation stance, emphasizing the nation’s tendency for bid portion issuing a stern informing against immoderate attempts to situation its spot done indirect means.

“We privation to enactment successful peace, and fto others unrecorded successful peace," PM Modi said, rapidly adding a caveat to this peaceful overture, “But erstwhile our spot is challenged done proxy war, we can’t enactment silent."

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Gujarat, India, India

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