Amit Shah Pays Tribute To Sardar Patel, Recounts His Uniting Role
Home Minister Amit Shah paid tributes to Sardar Patel at his 182-metre tall statue in Gujarat. "National Unity Day has unique importance. Today's National Unity Day is a day of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav...After independence, while leaving, Britishers had conspired to divide the country into several pieces. Sardar Patel foiled that conspiracy and resolved to make ''Akhand Bharat''. Sardar Patel is credited with uniting all 562 princely states of the pre-independent country to build the Republic of India.
