Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who is behind this endeavour, said India needs Patel's secularism which united people and not the “votebank secularism” that is being practiced today.
Both Advani and Modi have sought to fashion themselves as inheritors of Patel's legacy.
BJP has also alleged that Sardar Patel contribution was never hailed by the Congress and that it only eulogised the Nehru-Gandhi family.
Nehru had called Patel a 'total communalist', says Advani
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader L K Advani has quoted a book to allege that Jawahar Lal Nehru had called Sardar Patel a ‘total communalist' when the latter suggested that the army be sent to
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