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On Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's birth anniversary, Akhilesh Yadav invokes Jinnah with Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru

KANPUR: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday named Muslim League leader and Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah along with Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel in the same breath to claim that they studied in the same institution to become barristers and fought for India's freedom. He went on to state that it was Iron Man Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who imposed a ban on an ideology and that the people of the same ideology are indulging in divisive politics now. #WATCH | Sardar Patel, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and (Muhammad Ali) Jinnah studied in the same institute. Th… https://t.co/N3w2awI0kn— TOI Lucknow News (@TOILucknow) 1635736766000Repealing farm laws would be govt’s true tribute to Sardar Patel: AkhileshAkhilesh was addressing a public meeting in Hardoi on Sunday, the birth anniversary of Sardar Patel, to mark the start of the second phase of his ‘Vijay Yatra’ which thereafter reached Bangarmau in Unnao. In his speech, he praised Sardar Patel describing him as a man who had the knack for understanding the ground realities and take decisions accordingly. It was because of this quality that he was also known as the Iron Man ... the Loh Purush, he said. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav went on to say: “Sardar Patel ji, Rashtra pita Mahatama Gandhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru, Jinnah ek his sansathan mein padh kar ke bairistar banker kar ke aye the … ek hi jagah par padhai likhai ki unhone … woh baristar bane … unhoone ne aazadi dilai … unhe kisi bhi tarah ka sangarsh karna parda ho, to who peeche nahi hate … ek vichar dhara jispar pabandi lagai … agar kisi ne pabandi lagai thi … to lauh purush sardar patel ji ne us vichar dhara par pabandi lagane ka kaam kiya tha .. (Sardar Patel, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru and Jinnah went to the same educational institute and became barristers … they brought freedom … they never shied away from struggles … there was one ideology that was banned … the person who banned that ideology was Iron Man Sardar Patel),” Akhilesh said. The SP chief went on to state that same people were now talking of uniting the country and are dividing people on lines of caste and religion. He further said Sardar Patel always wanted that farmers should prosper. "If the government wants to pay tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in the right earnest, then the three black farms laws should be repealed today (on the birth anniversary of Sardar Patel) itself. We cannot forget the contribution of Sardar Patel post-independence. It was he who persuaded the princely states (which were then not part of India) to accede to India," the former UP CM said. He credited the farmers of handling the country’s economy and said if the farm laws will be implemented then the farming sector will land in the hands of the industrialists. Sharpening his attack on the UP chief minister, Akhilesh quoted a bureaucrat to claim that he does not know how to operate a mobile phone and said how would he then be able to understand the aspirations of today’s youth.

The Times of India

2021-11-01

Kanpur