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Patel - tallest leader
Patel - Tallest Leader, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, India's First Home Minister. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated here a museum of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the iconic leader from Gujarat who became India's first Home Minister.
PM, Modi share dais at the inauguration of Patel Museum.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated here a museum of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the iconic leader from Gujarat who became India's first Home Minister.
The Prime Minister was the chief guest and the Gujarat Chief Minister was the special guest. The event was organised by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Memorial Society. Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal and Union Minister of State for Mines Dinsha Patel were also present.
If Modi chose to lay emphasis on the contribution by Patel to the unity of the country immediately after Independence, Singh chose to hail his secular credentials at length.
Praising Patel’s contribution to India’s national integrity, Modi even went on to say that: "If Sardar Patel had been the first Prime Minister, India would have been different." He observed that Patel was instrumental in uniting the country after Independence. "That unity and integrity of the country today is under threat from all fronts, be it terrorism or Maoism," he said. "Every Indian still regrets that he (Patel) did not become the first Prime Minister. Had he been the first Prime Minister, the country's destiny would have been different," he said in comments that are being interpreted as a veiled attack on Nehru.
It may be noted that Modi has been lambasting Congress for “ignoring Sardar Patel's legacy.” He is set to lay the foundation stone for Patel's 182-metre tall statue October 31 on the 138th birth anniversary of the 'Iron Man'. Named the Statue of Unity, it will be installed in the middle of the Narmada riverbed facing the Sardar Sarovar Dam.
The proposed ‘Statue of Unity’ will be world’s tallest statue with a towering height of 597 feet, currently this position is possessed by China’s 420 feet Spring Temple Buddha.
