In every parameter, you would find Sardar Patel outranking Nehru. - TopicsExpress



          

In every parameter, you would find Sardar Patel outranking Nehru. Specific to Nehru’s supposed foreign-policy strengths, he was, rather, a bad judge of foreign interlocutors and nations, and far too emotional and naive in his dealings. So what was the great idea of persisting with the Commonwealth? The Panchsheel with the Chinese was a costly joke -- costly to India. You had an effete joker on one side and hardliners coming out of the Long March, a victorious revolution and the Korean War on the other. Added to the mess of the Jammu and Kashmir fighting, Nehru disgraced India in 1962, whose shock effects are felt to this day. Nehru left India psychologically damaged, in the same way that 10 years of Manmohan Singh’s government have made the country vulnerable on the frontiers. The worst of Nehruvianism is on exhibition today, and it would never have come to such a pass but for Nehru’s unfair victory over Patel, in which Gandhi played a distressing role. newsinsight.net/Whatwentwrong.aspx#page=page-1
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:44:15 +0000

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