It’s a fact that Nehru became a useful tool for the British during those years. It was he who insisted on granting a special status to Kashmir, overruling his colleagues including Sardar Patel and Ambedkar
Amit Shah is right Nehru committed blunders in Kashmir, but not the way he suggests firstpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from firstpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
There was no way Nehru could have stopped the UN interference in Kashmir or pushed the Pakistan Army out of POK. But this precarious situation was largely the result of his own egoistic personality and obnoxiously ideological and flippantly moralistic worldview
India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was urged by his most senior general to agree to a ceasefire with Pakistan in 1948, the Guardian reveals.