Later that year, the Sardar said: “Mahatma Gandhi named Pandit Nehru as his heir and successor. Gandhi may have made a mistake.Patel too may have been mistaken in saying that Gandhi was correct. And was Subhas also wrong in keeping the name ‘Nehru Brigade’ for a section of his Indian National Army? Gandhi, Nehru and Subhas addressed it.The values and goals named above were the values and goals of India’s nationalism from the 1920s through and beyond 1947. That would be deceptive.Addressing Congress workers in Bengaluru in February 1949, Sardar Patel spoke of “Hindu Raj” as “that mad idea” (Hindustan Times, February 26, 1949).

Source: Economic Times August 12, 2017 18:31 UTC