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  It was 'yoga' that made Nehru PM instead of Sardar Patel: Swami Ramdev

  Politics | June 20, 2015 13:25 IST

  New Delhi:  If Baba Ramdev is to be believed then Jawaharlal Nehru managed to become first Prime Minister of India leaving behind Sardar Patel in the PM race because he was a practitioner of Yoga.In

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  US-based doctor launches fund raising campaign for Statue of Unity

  India | January 08, 2015 7:35 IST

  Gandhinagar: To help realise the dream of constructing the "Statue of Unity", a US-based medical practitioner of Indian origin has started a fund raising campaign aiming to collect USD 250,000 for the project devoted to

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  Collected works of Sardar Patel to hit book stores in January

  India | December 16, 2014 10:32 IST

  New Delhi: A comprehensive collection of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's writings and pronouncements will be published in 15 volumes next month.Brought out by Konark Publishers, the collection will be a reprint of the volumes that were

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  Sardar Patel's collected works to come out in January

  India | December 13, 2014 14:47 IST

  New Delhi: Amid the Narendra Modi government's efforts to resurrect the memory of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, his Collected Works, including his speeches, writings and correspondence will come out in 15 volumes next month.This will be

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  'Congress-free India' not possible till Patel, Gandhi, Nehru remembered: Beni

  Politics | November 13, 2014 17:31 IST

  Lucknow: Senior Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for a “Congress-free India” would not materialise as long as people continue to remember icons like Sardar Patel, Mahatma Gandhi and

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  India would've been different if Patel was PM: Naidu

  Politics | October 31, 2014 12:14 IST

  New Delhi: Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu Friday said that if Sardar Vallabhbahi Patel had become the first prime minister of India, the fate of the "country would have been different".Speaking at the function

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  Modi remembers former PM Indira Gandhi on death anniversary

  Politics | October 31, 2014 9:16 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today remembered former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 30th death anniversary and paid tributes to first Home Minister Sardar Patel on his birth anniversary.  “I join my fellow

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  Patel's birth anniversary to be observed as 'Rashtriya Ekta Diwas'

  India | October 25, 2014 23:23 IST

  New Delhi: Government has decided to observe the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on October 31 as the ‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas' (National Unity Day) every year, as a mark of tribute to the efforts

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  Sardar Patel's 139th birth anniversary to be observed as 'National Unity Day'

  Politics | October 22, 2014 14:54 IST

  New Delhi: The Central government today decided to observe October 31, birth anniversary of India's first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Vallabhbhai Patel, as ‘Rastriya Ekta Diwas' (National Unity Day).A special programme ‘Run for

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  Rahul commits blooper, calls Modi "opposition leader"

  Politics | October 08, 2014 19:35 IST

  Mahad (Maha): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today committed a faux pas when he apparently referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “opposition leader”.  “An opposition leader says nothing happened in the last 60 years.

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  BJP knows where black money is hidden: Anand Sharma

  Politics | April 27, 2014 18:33 IST

  Ahmedabad: Accusing BJP of spending Rs 10,000 crore on media campaign of its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, senior Congress leader and Union Minister Anand Sharma today claimed that BJP leaders knew where the black

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  In Pics: Rahul Gandhi's Rally in Himachal Pradesh

  Politics | March 21, 2014 6:49 IST

  Tanda (HP): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today termed the Lok Sabha elections as a “battle of thoughts”, saying while the Congress stood for empowering the people, the opposition represented only the rich in the country.In

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  Statue vs statue: Maharashtra Shivaji taller than Gujarat Patel

  Politics | 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

  Politics | 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

  Politics | 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

  Politics | 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

  Politics | 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

  Politics | 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

  Politics | 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