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Across the current and expansive landscape from Mayawati to Modi, "fathers" or "founders" as they are honorifically called are being invoked, named and claimed. Long dead but immortal in their imprint on
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By claiming the Sardar through the tallest statue, Modi has declared a desire for a reversal, namely to force the Congress to consider Hindutva as mainstream.
independent India, figures forgotten and those who never really went away are being summoned as spirits who must now enchant and inhabit once more the political landscape.
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Without the support of the state or government, the stasis of statues was eschewed for the mobility of a march that chanted forgotten names down the city's streets as it walked past newspaper offices, shops and houses. A Punjabi poet reminded the gathering that the centenary was neither to celebrate the past nor consign it to history. It was to acknowledge and bear witness to the present. In the present, Punjab has appeared as a case of mistaken identity for Modi. In a public history lesson, earlier this week, the chief minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar, quite like an examiner, corrected Modi's history copybook. Neither the seat of learning, Takshila nor the site of Alexander's battle in the subcontinent was in Bihar, as Modi claimed. These sites, from the historic past, Kumar admonished, are in fact, in today's partitioned Punjab. You don't need Freud to recognize an "error" or 'slip' such as this by Modi is not an ill remembered "fact" that wishes to display mastery but betrays discomfort and unease. As a symbol of an iron-will (or lauh purush) Patel as conjured by Modi is aimed to be a fitting figure of Gujarat that he wishes to nationalize. Gujarat, though, is the birthplace of arguably the most famous Indian and the Father of the Nation.
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Gandhi, as we know, was assassinated by members of the RSS. Gandhi's assassin Godse in his confession stated that he did so because he deemed Gandhi to be the "Father of Pakistan". A few months after this defining event and in a speech in Bombay on October 30, 1948, Patel with great sorrow explained, "We could not have secured India's Freedom by any other means. If we had not partitioned India, the consequences of what would have followed would have been much worse than what actually took place as a result of Partition... We had to pay the price for our liberty." Maulana Azad in his memoirs reinforces that Patel was a "believer" in the idea of partition. Yet it would be too easy and simple to declare Patel as a repressed figurehead of Hindutva, as Modi desires. In a speech in Lucknow on January 6, 1948 Patel urged the RSS to "discard fighting with lathis, daggers and brickbats. I appeal to young men of India to unify on all sides; do not forget that India was lost on account of foolishness".
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Sundara Rajan (Chennai) 1 Follow er 17 Minutes ago Silver: 416
Modi is setting the agenda on a weekly basis and everyone is following it knowingly or unknowingly. Even when he is just the PM candidate, he is generating jobs for all these journalists, social scientists, activists et al. The fact remains that Cong relegates anyone other than Nehru-Ghandi to the backstage. So this is a brilliant ploy by Modi. Cong and left wing media is now forced to mouth the virtues of PAtel, something they would never have done otherwise. This has brought Patel back into national consciousness. For this alone, Modi deserves credit.
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Prasanna Kum ar (Chennai) 39 Follow ers 42 Minutes ago Gold: 20.6K
After all why shouldn't he ?, Mr. Modi is a proud Gujarati whats wrong when he revers another Gujarati who has made this entire country proud long before the people who have made their comments here were even born.
Jitendra Chaturvedi (Mumbai) 51 Follow ers 56 Minutes ago Platinum : 38.5K
Modi has merely brought Sardar Patel to nation's consciousness...Sardar Patel"s contribution to national unification is unprecedented...Dynasty obsessed congress deliberately underplayed Sardar Patel"s contribution.
R. Singh (India) 1 Hour ago
There is a sense that the legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru, has led to corruption,dynastical rule. People wonder what if Indian politics had taken a diffrent turn- Sardar Patel, Subhas Chandra Bose. There is a sense Patel unified the nation, dealt with divsive
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princes. nehru gave India Kashmir, article 370 votebank politics, corruption and the aggrandizement of his family.
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Scam nivas (Madras) 233 Follow ers 2 Hours ago Platinum : 47.7K
Modi has successfully NATIONALIZED Sardar Patel.
Scam-Dhya Pradesh (Bhopal) Replies To Scam nivas 1 Hour ago
hahaha. not at all...sir. rather he unwittingly closed all doors for RSS guys to lie and fabricate things about patel and made public knowledge of sardar's anti-rss and pro-congress deep roots.... sometimes, I seriously feel modi is a congi agent......
Rphenixrocks (India) 6 Follow ers 2 Hours ago Silver: 1990
True leaders with dedication for INDIA - Patel and Modi - Vande Mataram
Harish Lahkar (New Delhi) Replies To Rphenixrocks 1 Hour ago
Patel banned Feku's papa org. shows where Feku stands, and where patel stands
Joaquim (AD) Replies To Rphenixrocks 6 Follow ers 2 Hours ago Silver: 2163
VAST DIFFERENE BETWEEN MODI THE FEKU AND SADAR PATEL HE CAN NEVER AND EVER BE COMPARE TO ONE FEKU
R. Singh (India) 2 Hours ago
Chandra Gupta Maurya rulesin Bihar, and was therfore a Bihari. He is credited with defeating the Greeks
Hullum ane Rajam ohan (Karnataka) 33 Follow ers 3 Hours ago Gold: 15K
Forget the discussion about discussing patel's legacy. Talk the legacy the country has presently inherited from a corrupt government and how to come over the problem, gradually.
Joaquim (AD) Replies To Hullum ane Rajam ohan 6 Follow ers 1 Hours ago Silver: 2163
NOW THEY WANT TO BRING THE SYSTEM THE FEKU ASHE KNOWS HE IS A FAILURE PROBLEM WERE CREATED BY THE BJP /VHP /RSS AND NOW WANT TO SOLVE IT BY CREATING DRAMA ONLY
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Joebloggs (Cybernation) 3 Hours ago
WTF! why the hell did you mention RSS in this post(I cannot really call it an article as it is not researched). assination of MKG by a member of RSS does not mean that RSS sponsored it. So there was no need to mention it here. Have some shame Kapila ji and don't sell your "Imaan" for money.
Kkpranavam .Pranavam (KUNHAMBU) 4 Hours ago Bronze: 153
HOW SARDARPAATEL CAME TO TO MODI DREAM SUDDENLY WHEN WAMTED BECAME PM OF INDIA WHERE IS MODI SO FAR HE THINKS THAT HE CAN FOOL THE ENTIRE NATION BY HIS HYPOCRACY
Shivam Dabas (Ghaziabad) Replies To Kkpranavam .Pranavam 1 Follow er 3 Hours ago Silver: 539
you must be a congress worker, or some pakistani or chinense who don't want India to develop, congress has always put Indians in poverty in their rule from 1957 till now in 2013, despite taking India to the road of development in from 1998 to 2004 still they face defeat in the election and it was due to NDA that India sees unprecedented growth and after that congress only enjoyed fruit of their work in UPA-1 and now we all can see that in UPA-11 how our economy is faring if we can give congress so many chances from 1947, then why not one chance for BJP this time and one more thing I am not a BJP worker, I am student who loves his country more than anything else.
PK (Kochi) 5 Hours ago
At this rate 50 years from now the BJP will want to erect a bigger statue for Soniaji. Maybe one for Indiraji earlier.
Sanjay Gupta (Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh) Replies To PK 62 Follow ers 4 Hours ago Gold: 18.2K
they have thousands of memorials in various institutions and schemes.
Jay N (USA) 6 Hours ago
The author needs to get educated first...Godse was not a RSS worker and neither were the co-conspirators...that was the reason the knee-jerk reaction of banning RSS has to be lifted within months as it had no legal grounding...also Sardar Patel is on record praising RSS and even Nehru had invited RSS to pariticate in the Republic Day parade....you seems to be well educated so you can find out from any library.
Global Indian (USA) Replies To Jay N 5 Hours ago
again a pack of half truths and full lies. RSS ban was lifted when they promised Sardar Patel, that they will remain a cultural organisation and not indulge in politics. That RSS has completely forgotten now. It now is in full command of the BJP. Godse was a HMS man, the militant brother of the RSS. modi can twist lies and give it a spin. But PR cannot take away truth of history. Modi is a fraud. All Indians know that.
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Asw in (Dubai) Replies To Jay N 5 Hours ago
The author is a History professor at Cambridge. What have you done with your life?! You are extremely ignorant. Firstly, Godse was an RSS worker; not even RSS disputes that. The only thing disputed is whether he was still a member in 1948. Gopal Godse, Nathuram's own brother, says that all Godse brothers were active RSS workers at the time. Sardar Patel hated the RSS. He is on record saying that RSS is the biggest threat to national security and unity, and that he is sure RSS's ideology contributed to the Mahatma's assassination. And as Home Minister, he personally took the decision to ban the RSS, and threw all its leaders in jail.
Artsdts (Delhi) Replies To Jay N 8 Follow ers 6 Hours ago Gold: 5316
Ha ha this is what happens if we get uneducated people into journalism!
Abc1012 (Delhi) 7 Hours ago
Patel and Nehru made India. Nehru's family destroyed it. Indira broke up the INC, brought criminals into the political system. Her progeny brought in subservient, incompetent looting thieves. The INC of Nehru, Patel and Azad died in 1966.
Harish Lahkar (New Delhi) 8 Hours ago
three points 1)Modi, unknowingly opened a can of worms. poor guy believed his saraswati shishu mandir history as the only canonical text, in which late congress and communist leaders( Bhagat Singh et. al) are portrayed as BJP/RSS .But it was nevertheless a great expose of modi and the sangh parivar... In reality, sardar did all he could to stop RSS, Hindu mahasabha and other muslim,sikh communal orgs . as to his criticism on RSS, anyone can check out Sardar's works. 2) modi, and many to justify him, claim sardar had to belong to INC as that was the only body at that time, and so nothing special. Ok. so, why was patel not in the INA, the Hindu Mahasabha, the Ghadar Party, the CPI, or the Hindustan Socialist Repulican Party, Forward Bloc or any other party. POint is, Sardar was a congressman through and through and stayed with the party till the very end. 3) If modi has so much love for the sardar, lets go back to history and see what the sardar wanted. sardar wantd Rss 2 b disolved n merged in2 congress. If modi loves him so much,he should please fulfil the sardar's dream.
V.G.Nair (Mumbai) Replies To Harish Lahkar 5 Hours ago
Sardar was aware of the ideas of RSS very well. Still he invited RSS to merge with Congress. What it means. He was not averse to Congress accommodating the views of RSS. The INC of pre partition was not the present INC. It was a movement. Different leaders were having different personalities i.e. views on political and economical matters. There was a difference betwen Patel and Nehru.
Harish Lahkar Replies To V.G.Nair 1 Hour ago
sardar knew the Rss, if allowed to run free, will riotously destroy India. SO he wanted to channelize whatsoever infinitesimal good it had, into the congress..... anyways, the RSS betrayed patel . Nehru was a visionary and knew that a dog's tail always remains bent
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Sim han.Krish (Delhi) Replies To Harish Lahkar 5 Hours ago Bronze: 140 Agree (2) Disagree (1) Recommend (0) Offensive
Except for people belonging to one family no one else is respected in Congress(I). Shastry of earlier congress and Narasimha Rao of Cong (I) were great contributors, never recognized by the current looters. Original Congress had many leaders who were balancing various factors. Nehru's legacy made it one dimensional. Also Gandhiji wanted to dissolve Congress. Congressmen should respect their own leader's wish before expecting others.
Harish Lahkar Replies To Sim han.Krish 1 Hour ago
once again, fekularization is no more acceptable. your last lie was " congress did not give ads of sardar"... a little fact finding found that congress had, in fact spent more than 8 crore times of what the bjp spent: nill, zero, zilch. gandhi did not want congress dissolved as a political party, or else he wouldnt have blessed nehru and sardar as the leaders of the newly formed post-colonial nation called India
Prashant (India) Replies To Harish Lahkar 7 Hours ago
But now the need of time to stop all terrorist briders like congress and JDU and SP. Only talking can not slove the problem. Only loot can not solve the problem. If you are telling Modi has opened the can of worm, why don't you wait and weatch. Now we are fade up with you so called seculsrism and loot. Let the people of India Decide. Congress a sin for country and those are supporting them are only in favour of loot.
Harish Lahkar Replies To Prashant 6 Hours ago
speaking of terrorist briders, seems all bjp leaders sleep with maoists in jharkhand and chattisgah. interstingly, maoists kill congress leaders, who are in opposition but do nothing to stop patRIOTS in BJP who are supposed to kill them. LOOT....where did i hear that word.... yeah...karnataka ......... yes..... we waited and watched and saw modi getting exposed so badly that finally he acceded that patel was NO DOUBT a congress leader........ the sin of the nation is the bjp, born out of wedlock of RSS, mahasabha and the rest....... Btw, a request to you and all those who have disliked my post: please answer my three points concretely, no emotional ranting here please
Mdbiyani (Muscat) 4 Follow ers 8 Hours ago Gold: 5079
Modi's inspiration is Sardar Patel a forgotten hero, He was the one man responsible for bringing India under one banner . This is what we need now . He belonged to India, Gujarat and if Modi is honoring him now ,why is the media, congress crying foul. They can do well to focus on making India one , forgetting religion ,caste , that is accidental and concentrate on being a good productive human being .
Ravindra (Hindustan) 8 Hours ago
Because sardar patelji did Shree somnath temple freed from mosque which was built illegally by the moguls and he did the great job of hydrabad and marathwada free from cruel nizms and moguls and now our great person narendrabhai modiji want to built our LORD RAMAS TEMPLE.
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Iyer (India) 8 Hours ago
What is this stupid, immature author trying to state in this sprawling, overreaching article that tries to do too much, and ends up doing too little? Modi is not alone among BJP or RSS cadres who have professed admiration for Sardar Patel. Being a Gujarati himself, it makes perfect sense for him to wish to erect a proper memorial for him to ensure he isn't forgotten by history, as certain "secular" elements in the Congress Party have willfully chosen to do over the past some 60 years. So he got the location of Taxila wrong and mixed up the two Chandraguptas. Big deal. Sure, like something as STUPID and INSIGNIFICANT as that is going to make us change our vote for Modi! LOL! Sane, balanced, and reasonable Indian voters are more concerned about the character and personal qualities of the person who stakes the claim to leading the nation, not whether he has a perfect grasp over historical minutiae. We want a good administrator to lead the nation and restore to it a semblance of self-respect the Congress party has utter and totally ROBBED the nation of, not a headmaster! - P.S. Gandhi was NOT assassinated by the RSS - to state so is borderline libelous, and were I in charge of the RSS, I would SUE the disingenuous impertinence of this author. Gandhi was in fact, assassinated by a mentally imbalanced political renegade who was once upon a time associated with the RSS, and had NOTHING to do with the organization at the time of the assassination. Talk about historical ignorance!
Hunter Punter (India) Replies To Iyer 2 Hours ago
Imagine 14 idiots agreed with you that it is a big deal, that the wanna be PM is clueless about India's history, about India's foreign policy and India's defence policy! Our history according to your brilliance is INSIGNIFICANT!! And according to you, anyone with no intelligence, foresight and understanding of the ethos of our history and culture will make a good administrator! Carry on and continue your brilliant lies and frauds!! Modi, is a fscist with a poor understanding and intellect and he will never be elected to the highest seat of this beautiful country! Paid cyber brigade of Modi cannot influence the native intelligence of Indians!
Venkatesha Murthy (Bangalore) 6 Follow ers 9 Hours ago Silver: 738
There are many congress. The congress which was founeded by A.O. Hume, is dead long back. These are members of the duplicate congress.what legacy have the duplicate congress has left behind.
Sk.Iyer (Surat) 5 Follow ers 9 Hours ago Silver: 2225
Sardar Patel along with Nehru were among the tallest leaders of modern India. Over the last sixty years post independence, apart from Nehru - Gandhi family all tall leaders have been slowly forgotten and drowned. Now that Modi has tried to claim Or trumpet for Sardar, a non issue becomes an issue. Can Congress stop reacting and instead start acting on their own. This would do more good for Congress and the country.
JOAQUIM A FERNANDES (AD) Replies To Sk.Iyer 9 Hours ago
MODI THE FEKU SHOULD STOP BLUFFING THE NATION ABOUT SECULARISM
Prashant (India) Replies To JOAQUIM A FERNANDES 7 Hours ago
What is Modi that people of India well aware. Atleast he has not stollen the Coal file as this PM and Congress did. At least he has not one to loot as congress has son, daughter, son in laws and Daughter in laws. The true feku is DIGGY.whole world knows about Congress now please don't tell.
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DINATH (Hyderabad) 113 Follow ers 9 Hours ago Gold: 10.1K
Who else can claim other than Modi! Congress has forgotten all other Independance stalwarts other than Nehru, Indira, Rajiv . Gandhi is being used to distort and get leverage . Gandhian principles have given a go by by Congress long ago. Only Oct 2nd we can see some name sake ritual with no intent with his spirit and principles !!
JOAQUIM A FERNANDES (AD) Replies To DINATH 9 Hours ago
IF THE OPPOSITION IS ONLY OPPOSING AND NOT ALLOWING THE NATION TO MOVE FORWARD BUT ONLY DIVIDE THE NATION AND NOW THEY ARE PROJECTING SECULARISM AND FAKE SECULARISUM AND REAL COMMUNULAISM THE BJP / RSS / VHP
Manu Singh (Mumbai) 2 Follow ers 9 Hours ago Silver: 369 Agree (4) Disagree (6) Recommend (3) Offensive
Why BJP MLAs watch porn in the assembly? Why KA BJP minister Halappa raped his friends wife? Why BJPs ex-president Bangaru Laxman was willing to compromise the national security for few thousand dollars? Why BJP minister from MP said rape of grown up girls is acceptable? Why BJP MPs blocked the Jan Lok Pal Bill? Why Yediyurappa looted public land? Is he not from patriotic RSS? Why RSS is producing immoral and corrupt ministers? Why Modi doesnt want state lokayukta in Guj? Why he is hell bent on destroying the state lokayukta?
JOAQUIM A FERNANDES (AD) Replies To Manu Singh 9 Hours ago
HONEST OPINION ARE COMING AND PEOPLE ARE PROJECTING THE TRUTH WHICH THE BJP / RSS / VHP WELL ORGANISED CRIME BY DISRUPTING THE PARLIMENT FOR LAST 4 YEARS AND THIS IS WHAT THE SUITATION OF THE COUNTRY FOR THAT AND SUFFERING OF THE PEOPLE 1.2 BILLION PEOPLE AND THE NATION WHO IS REEALLY CORRUPT IS COMING OUT IN THE OPEN AND ONLY SAYING WE WILL KILL YOU AND ATTACK YOU UNCIVILIZED BJP / VHP / RSS THEY ARE ALL PREHISTORIC PEOPLE WITH THAT IDEAS UNCIVILIZED
Abhijit Kulkarni (India) 1 Follow er 9 Hours ago Bronze: 114 Agree (17) Disagree (2) Recommend (7) Offensive
To answer why BJP is claiming SP, its simple, he remained unclaimed for 60 years so its anybody's call. its Imperative that all freedom fighters were Congress leaders since that was the ONLY dominant pre-independence political party.. THE single objective of this articles appears to be jeopardizing BJP's move to associate with SP. \n\r While I hardly cares about the outcome of this episode, I see some positive things coming out after absorbing few facts. 1. Realizing the critical role that SP played in Indian politics, we have many other unsung heroes who need to be brought in limelight/ on national canvas for our next generation 2. Till now Congress never ever made any cognizant attempt to project any NON (GANDHI /NEHRU) leader on national canvas. Yes, they had to accept B R Ambedkar after Dalit Movement but still it was more like a trade-off politics than being core part of mainstream congress. 3. BJP was just lucky to sight this opportunity and made no mistake in exploiting with this move. From this political opportunism of BJP , one good thing that came up for Indian politics is need of addressing National leadership beyond nehru/gandhi canvas; specially with time, Congress is realizing that these old gimmicks will work no more for Indian voters.
SSRRKK (Jodhpur Rajasthan) 36 Follow ers 10 Hours ago Gold: 9378
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that he is an gujarati
Joaquim (AD) Replies To SSRRKK 6 Follow ers 8 Hours ago Silver: 2163
EXPECTIONAL GOOD GUJARATI AND SECULAR AND HUMAN BEING
Sanjay Gupta (Kanpur) 62 Follow ers 10 Hours ago Gold: 18.2K
How can the philosophy of treating the majority religion as not mainstream continue. One cannot forget that it was Nehru who forced Gandhi to accept the twonation theory.
Mahesh Ved (Mumbai) 885 Follow ers 10 Hours ago Platinum : 158.2K
MODI HAS NO OPTION ,OTHER THAN HIJACKING CONGRESS LEADERS LIKE SARDAR PATEL ,WHO EVEN BANNED RSS.BECAUSE HIS RSS HAS DOES NOT HAVE ANY NATIONALIST HEROS.RSS HAS ONLY PRODUCED VIOLENT, POISONOUS, RIOTING,HATE FILLED GUNDAS LIKE GUNDA GOLWALKAR, TERRORIST HEDGEWAR, DARPOK SAVARKAR, MURDERER NATHURAM GODSE AND SUPER TERRORIST MODI HIMSELF.
Sanjay Gupta (Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh) Replies To Mahesh Ved 62 Follow ers 10 Hours ago Gold: 18.2K
Better than Nehru supporting Jinnah and his two nation theory. Imposing Section 376 and agreeing to a Plebiscite.
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