meena das narayan · @Meedana
30th Oct 2013 from MetroTwit
CONGRESS LYING: excerpt from my uncle's memoir (MKKNAIR) which I have translated into English : Nehru and Patel had wide difference of opinion in most issues. Patel had pointed out the drawbacks in Nehru’s approach. Now, everyone will readily agree that it was Nehru’s such policies that brought much harm to the North-Eastern provinces.
But at that time, unlike other states, when Nehru decided to bring these North-Eastern states under the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Patel strongly protested, but to no avail.
It therefore became easy for the Christian Missionaries to prove to the inhabitants that they were foreigners, as they were under Foreign Affairs. Nehru even started a separate Service to look after this administration. The selection of officers was similar to the selection to Indian Foreign Service in its initial stages. Hence, except a few, those who joined in that service were inefficient and lacked experience.
It was the inefficiency of these administrators coupled with the inefficiency of those in External Affairs that was the root cause of anti-national movements in Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur and Assam highlands.
The difference in opinion between Nehru and Patel, finally ended in Nehru’s personal animosity against Patel. If Nehru, the great leader didn’t bear this personal grudge, the following two things would not have occurred. The day Patel died, Nehru sent two notes to State Affairs Ministry, which incidentally reached V.P.Menon. The first one was to surrender the Cadillac car used by Patel to the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Patel died in Bombay.
The second note was that, in case anyone wished to attend the funeral ceremony of Patel they should do it at their own expense. When he received this note, V.P. Menon summoned all the officers to his Ministry and without disclosing the content of note, collected the names of officers who wished to attend the function and bought them two-way tickets to Bombay from his own pocket. This incident too infuriated Nehru. @Equateall @Swamy39 @narendramodi this is to prove the COngress wrong