Gandhi too, along with Nehru, wasn’t very kind to Patel in his public utterances. He complained that Patel was no more his “yes-man as he was once popularly and affectionately nicknamed”
He was called a "traitor" to his face by the zealous proponents of the cause that he did most to advance and firmly secure.But, with patience, flexibility, and a conciliatory approach welded to a determined outlook, Pandit Govind .
His finest hour was the accession of over 550 scattered principalities, but he was also a lieutenant to Mahatma Gandhi, best able to reconcile the impracticalities of Gandhian philosophy with the realities of local politics.