Sardar Vallabhai Patel

Popularly known as Sardar Patel, He was an Indian politician. He served as the first Deputy Prime Minister of India. He was an Indian barrister, a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and a founding member of the Republic of India.
He played a leading role in the country's struggle for independence and was the leader of integration of India into a united, independent nation . He is also known as the iron man of India.
He is responsible for the integration of approximately 512 princely states which were once independent. They were later divided into 28 states and 9 union territories. The only exceptions are the union territories of Jammu and kashmir and Ladakh. These territories had been handled by the prime minister at that time pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
We will not talk about the integration of Jammu and kashmir into India and stick with what the achievements of sardar valabhai patel were.

He went to different kingdoms at the time of independence and pursued the local leaders to join the Indian state and made sure all agreed to common terms sor that there is no difference of power in each state.
There were so kingdoms like the Nizam ruled area which did not readily accept to join India or Pakistan but wanted to create it's own independent state.
Unfortunately for them the iron man of India then decided to use the Indian army to secure the rich kingdom of Nizam. He is a very respected man in the nation and is also honoured with the the world's tallest statue, the statue of unity which significance the work done by sardar valabhai Patel of uniting all the states of India.
The statue stands tall near the sardar sarovar dam in Surat, Gujarat which is his birth place.
The statue is 182 meters tall and the nearest challenger to the statue in terms of height is the spring temple buddha statue which is 128 metres tall .
That is it for sardar valabhai Patel.

Himank Jain
Writer
Philomath Team