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  Statue vs statue: Maharashtra Shivaji taller than Gujarat Patel

  National | January 21, 2014 11:49 IST

  Mumbai: With elections around the corner, the Maharashtra government has revived its project to build an equestrian statue of Shivaji in the Arabian Sea, off Marine Drive in Mumbai — on a much grander scale.A

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  Sardar Patel was not anti-Muslim: Advani

  National | December 24, 2013 14:13 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 24: BJP leader L K Advani today contested allegations that Sardar Patel was anti-Muslim and quoted Rafiq Zakaria, an Islamic scholar and Congress leader, who had done research on the ‘Iron Man',

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  BJP holds 'Run for Unity' in memory of Sardar Patel

  National | December 15, 2013 17:51 IST

  New Delhi: BJP today organised a marathon in 565 places across the country to mark the death anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and spread the message of good governance and national integration.BJP president Rajnath Singh

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  Sardar Patel doesn't belong to one party: BJP

  National | November 25, 2013 11:13 IST

  Hyderabad: Rejecting the allegation that BJP is trying to claim the legacy of Saradar Vallabh Bhai Patel, senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu today said that Sardar Patel belongs to the entire country and not

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  Patel was the first to agree to partition, says Chidambaram

  India | November 11, 2013 21:42 IST

  New Delhi: Joining debate with BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi over partition, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today quoted excerpts from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's book to say that Sardar Patel had agreed to the

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  Jawaharlal, do you want Kashmir or not, Patel asked Nehru in 1948

  National | November 11, 2013 14:55 IST

  New Delhi:  Senior BJP leader L K Advani today referred to another book to support his claim that there were differences between Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel over sending the Indian army to Hyderabad when

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  Patel was right-wing pro-Hindu, Nehru was left-wing secular

  National | November 10, 2013 6:24 IST

  The BJP's "mentor", L.K. Advani, can be credited with having taken the initiative to blow away the cobwebs which have surrounded the debate on Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel by recalling an episode which claims

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  Nehru had called Patel a 'total communalist', says Advani

  National | November 05, 2013 18:27 IST

  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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  Watch Narendra Modi laying foundation stone of Sardar Patel's statue (In pics)

  National | November 01, 2013 6:46 IST

  Ahmedabad: Today Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Sardar Patel's statue.This is going to be world's tallest statue. This statue is 597 feet tall and will directly face Narmada river.BJP patriarch

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  Narendra Modi lays foundation stone of Sardar Patel's statue

  India | October 31, 2013 15:37 IST

  Kevadia (Narmada): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today hit back at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying Sardar Patel belonged to the whole nation and not a particular party and that he favoured Patel's secularism and

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  Gujarat to have world's tallest statue dedicated to Sardar Patel

  India | October 31, 2013 12:22 IST

  New Delhi: Gujarat will soon have the world's tallest statue on the lines of America's famous 'Statue of Liberty'. The Statue of Unity is a proposed 182 metres (597 ft)  high monument of Sardar Patel that

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  Had Patel been first PM, BJP and RSS would not have existed: Digvijaya Singh

  National | October 30, 2013 16:36 IST

  New Delhi: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh today came down heavily on Narendra Modi's remarks on Sardar Patel and said that BJP and RSS would not exist if Sardar Patel was the first PM."There is

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  Congress, BJP spar over Sardar Patel's legacy

  India | October 29, 2013 22:17 IST

  Ahmedabad: Congress and BJP today engaged in a public spat over Sardar Patel's legacy with Narendra Modi saying India's "fate and face" would have been different had he been its first prime minister and Manmohan

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  Does BJP agree with Sardar Patel's view on RSS: Tewari

  National | October 29, 2013 13:01 IST

  New Delhi: Congress leader Manish Tewari Monday said India's first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was opposed to the RSS, and asked whether the BJP agrees with his views.He said that the Bharatiya Janata Party

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  Has Congress always been averse to RSS?

  National | October 19, 2013 14:05 IST

  New Delhi: By triggering a debate on its Op-ed page last week, "The Hindu", possibly unintentionally, lifted the scab from an old wound for many of us.The debate, initiated by Vidya Subramaniam's column Oct 8,

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  Modi's Sardar Patel memorial to dwarf US landmark

  National | September 15, 2013 18:14 IST

  Rewari (Haryana): Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections Sunday said his government wants a unity memorial double that of the Statue of Liberty.The Statue of Liberty in the bay off

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  Modi criticizes Nehru for Kashmir, praises Sardar Patel for integration of princely states

  India | August 12, 2013 7:31 IST

  Hyderabad, Aug 12: Paying glowing tributes to the first Home Minister of the country Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at a function here, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today criticised Jawaharlal Nehru, blaming him for the unresolved

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  Why is Sardar Patel called the 'Iron Man of India'?

  National | October 31, 2015 9:07 IST

  New Delhi: Sardar Patel is known as the ‘Iron Man' of Indian politics. What is it that got him the epithet of ‘Iron Man'?Sardar Patel was a man of principles. A fierce nationalist, he never

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  Why Gandhi opted for Nehru and not Sardar Patel for PM ?

  National | October 31, 2015 11:50 IST

  New Delhi: As Machiavelli wrote -" History is written by the victors". The official history of independent India was written and overseen by that faction of the Congress party which emerged victorious in the leadership

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  Making Nehru PM was a mistake, confessed Maulana Azad

  National | July 15, 2012 12:24 IST

  New Delhi, Jul 15: “Humaare se ye galti hui, Sardar Patel  ko prime minister banana chahiye tha aur Pandit Nehru ko president ,” Maulana Abul Kalam Azad told veteran journalist Kuldip Nayyar, a few years