Prime Minister Narendra Mod said the imposing statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s in Gujarat has not been built to “belittle” former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. He said, “Patel’s stature is so tall that you don’t have to try too hard to make others look small.”
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Terming the Statue of Unity as a tribute long overdue to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, his grandnephew, 91-year-old Dhirubhai Patel, however, said “he (Sardar Patel) would have said no to it.”
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Congress’s Anand Sharma said, that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s 1948 order banning the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh should be placed at a foot of the huge Sardar Patel statue, named as the “Statue of Unity”.
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