Had Sardar Patel Been The First Prime Minister

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Justice S. N. Aggarwal hails from a family of freedom fighters. After having a small stint of Practice in the High Court Punjab and Haryana, he got into P.C.S. (Judicial). He remained posted at different places including as District Judge Patiala and Jallandhar before being elevated as a Judge, Punjab and Haryana High Court in November 2004. While in High Court Justice Aggarwal brought the trial court record of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh from Lahore (Pakistan) now lying in the High Court Museum. Justice Aggarwal also served as President State Consumer Redressal Commission, Punjab, later on as Chairman Haryana Backward Classes Commission.

Justice Aggarwal served as Law Secretary in the Andaman. and Nicobar Administration at Port Blair from May 1990 to September 1992. He authored a book The Heroes of Cellular Jail about the supreme sacrifices made by the revolutionary patriots, incarcerated in the Cellular Jail in their struggle for the freedom of the country. Later on he brought it out in a concise form The Cellular Jail in Our Freedom Struggle published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) as Supplementary Reading for Senior Secondary School students to update them about this Chapter of History.

Besides these two books Justice Aggarwal has also written 5 books on law. Lastly he has written the book 'Nehru's Himalayan Blunders: The Accession of Jammu and Kashmir.' Now Justice Aggarwal has come up with 3 books, two Volumes on 'SARDAR PATEL: THE SUPREME ARCHITECT IN UNIFICATION OF INDIA' and the third 'HAD SARDAR PATEL BEEN THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER.'

Hon'ble Chief Minister of Haryana Shri Manohar Lal Khattar was pleased to release the book titled 'NEHRU'S HIMALAYAN BLUNDERS: The Accession of Jammu and Kashmir' authored by Justice S. N. Aggarwal former Judge Punjab and Haryana High Court, on December 12, 2019 in Law Bhawan Sector 37, Chandigarh. I was present on the dias on that day. The Hon'ble Chief Minister in his speech, had just given a hint that Justice Aggarwal would come up with more books in future. It appears that taking the hint from that speech Justice Aggarwal has come out with the present book titled 'HAD SARDAR PATEL BEEN THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER.'I am told that Justice Aggarwal has also written two other books on Sardar Patel, the other two being: SARDAR PATEL: THE SUPREME ARCHITECT IN UNIFICATION OF INDIA in two parts.

There is no doubt that Sardar Patel was called 'Iron man of India.' There were more than 500 princely states in our country after Partition and when India got her Independence on August 15, 1947. It was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who consolidated all the princely states and gave us a unified India just in two years i.e. by 1949. His achievements were much more than any other leader of his times. Only one princely State of Jammu and Kashmir which was in the domain of Sardar Patel, was taken over by Pandit Nehru to himself and dealt with that princely state through Gopaswami Ayyangar. The State of Jammu and Kashmir was not handled properly by Pandit Nehru and as a result a major chunk of that state which was significant and strategically important for India from military point of view, was lost to Pakistan which is called PoK. Nehru had taken this matter to the UNO Security Council and our country is still facing grave danger from Pakistan as that country has joined hands with China. All the problems relating to the State of Jammu and Kashmir have been dealt with by Justice Aggarwal in his book NEHRU'S HIMALAYAN BLUNDERS: The Accession of Jammu and Kashmir.

Unfortunately, neither Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as as PM nor his family descendants who remained Prime Ministers of our country for a long time gave Sardar Patel the proper place, he deserved. While Sardar Patel richly deserved BHARAT RATNA but he was denied of that privilege by the Nehru family. Nehru gave BHARAT RATNA to himself in 1955 when the Kashmir mangling done by him, were still pending in UNO and Indira Gandhi gave BHARAT RATNA to herself in 1971. They did not think of Sardar Patel who gave a unified India to them to rule. It was PM Narasimha Rao who gave BHARAT RATNA to Sardar Patel in 1991.

After I had written the book 'NEHRU'S HIMALAYAN ABLUND UNDERS: The Accession of Jammu and Kashmir,' I thought, I would be doing great injustice and disservice to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, if I failed to write the book on the patriotism and unparalleled achievements of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel which no other leader of his times has to his credit. The present generation does not know, if the map of India was not as such, when she got her Independence on August 15, 1947. Majority of the present generation, especially the students, do not know if there were princely states and those princely states were governed by the Rajas, Maharajas and Nawabs when India got Independence and when Partition of the country had taken place.

There were 552 princely states in India after partition of the country in which 48 per cent of population was residing. Sardar Patel unified these States in India and he gave us a unified India in 1949! Hence this book 'SARDAR PATEL: THE SUPREME ARCHITECT IN UNIFICATION OF INDIA' in a series of two books. Third book is, 'HAD SARDAR PATEL BEEN THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER.'

Maulana Abdul Azad Kalam was the Congress President and his term was to expire in 1946. The President of the Congress was to be elected in his place. Sardar Patel, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Acharya Kripalani were the candidates. 12 Congress Committees out of 15, had voted for Sardar Patel to be the Congress President, as the Congress President was to become the first Prime Minister of Independent India on August 15, 1947. But Mahatma Gandhi had declared Pandit Nehru as his heir and successor. Sardar Patel bowed down to the will of his Master, Mahatma Gandhi. India was going to adopt a democratic form of government after the Indepencence. It was a first attack on democratic values by Nehru as he could say 'No' for being the President and first Prime Minister of India because, it was Sardar Patel, who was voted democratically for being elected as the Congress President and thereby the first Prime Minister of the country. That is how Pandit Nehru became the first Prime Minister.

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