Getty Images External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar at Hyderabad House, on February 8, 2020 in New Delhi. India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar got into a Twitter spat with historian Ramachandra Guha on Thursday, on whether or not Sardar Vallabhai Patel had ever been excluded from Jawaharlal Nehru’s Cabinet. pic.twitter.com/FelAMUZxFL — Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) February 12, 2020Guha on Thursday corrected Jaishankar’s statement, calling it a “myth” and accused him promoting “fake news”. https://t.co/krAVzmaFkL — Ramachandra Guha (@Ram_Guha) February 13, 2020Guha quoted Srinath Raghavan’s recent article in The Printtitled ‘Nehru never excluded Patel from cabinet list. pic.twitter.com/N6m1mOr7SF — Ramachandra Guha (@Ram_Guha) February 13, 2020Jaishankar has yet to respond to this.

Source: Huffington Post February 13, 2020 08:26 UTC