Highlighting the country wide celebrations of Sardar Patel's birth anniversary, PM Modi said that lakhs of people are participating in 'Run for Unity' across the country and are taking part in it through cultural programs.
While addressing the people on the occasion, Thakur stated that Sardar Patel always wanted India to be strong, inclusive, alert, polite and developed.
For Sardar Patel, "Ek Bharat" meant equal opportunities for all and "Ek Bharat is a Bharat that gives equal opportunities to women, Dalits, deprived, tribal and forest dwellers, he said
Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu and other leaders also paid tribute to the Iron Man of India.
On this day in 1947, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, the Home Member of Parliament inaugurated the All India Services.
For example, it is a matter of great pride for the Aam Aadmi Party that the work done by us in the field of education and healthcare in Delhi is a focus of research by students of the acclaimed Harvard University.
Modi will be present at the Ekta Diwas parade at Kevadiya near the Statue of Unity.
Modi lauded the vision of former Home Minister Sardar Patel, and said that his government’s attempt is to find a solution to a decades-old problem.
The Government has been very badly advised. The accused in the CBI case has been posted to a coveted job and the complainant has been reprimanded. This reminds one of the warning sounded by one of the greatest sons of independent India, the immortal Sardar Patel: 'Don't tinker with the all-India services. It will damage good governance no end'. The nation has just unveiled with great pride its tallest statue of the immeasurably tall Son of India. Let history not record that it was just an empty gesture.
The historian further said that much of the criticism against Gandhi was baseless and arises from lack of understanding.
