What you all also may not know is that India’s first PM wasn’t elected unanimously, At least 12 out of 15 Congress committees were in favor of Sardar Patel. Not a single pradeshik (state) Congress committee endorsed Nehru’s candidature. This is when Gandhi chipped in. (READ IT) https://twitter.com/devilsxblessing/status/1301399882339500034

Even Maulana Abul Kalam Azad who had been the Congress president since 1940 was keen to contest, but Gandhi told him to withdraw his name.

Meanwhile Gandhi also asked Sardar Patel to withdraw from the contest. Patel did as he was told, as a mark of respect for Gandhi. This is how the deck was cleared for Nehru to take over as India’s first Prime Minister.

Gandhi was sure that Patel would not oppose anything he wanted but the same cannot be said about Nehru. Gandhi probably believed that Nehru might cause problems in the way of India’s independence and may even split the Congress in case he was not made prime Minister.

Time has proved it beyond doubt that Patel would have been a better PM in place of Nehru.A few days before his death Patel wrote a letter warning Nehru about China’s nefarious designs but Nehru ignored the warning as a result of which India faced a crushing defeat in the 1962 war

Even the map of present day India and Pakistan (depicting Balochistan and Kashmir) may have been different had Patel been India’s first prime minister.

Whole map of India would have been different and ofcourse no partition probably if the decision was to be made without Gandhi chipping in.

Jawaharlal Nehru who ruled like a king till death. He ruled from 1947-64 and India totally stagnated towards the end. There were 10 ministers in the Nehru-Patel Cabinet. Did you know six of those rebelled against Nehru and quit?

One party ruled without a single credible Opposition for 30 years. Nehru’s daughter Indira Gandhi (with a brief 3-year gap) also ruled till death.

Pakistan and China. Nehru bungled on both. Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw has gone on record as saying that Nehru was totally indecisive on Kashmir and it was Patel’s pushing that saw India take decisive action and secure the Valley from the advances of Pakistan.

In the case of China also while our enemy was making grand plans Nehru wore blinkers and pretended nothing would happen. Even when China attacked, Nehru didn’t care the Indian Air Force was superior to the China’s Air Force, but Nehru was too scared to use it.

The Kashmir problem could have been solved in the 1947-48 period, but Nehru was totally indecisive on it. Kashmir was never treated like other Indian States and BR Ambedkar strongly opposed Article 370.