Patel which part of india

Hardik Patel, a year-old graduate, is leading the movement and is on an indefinite hunger strike until the state government relents.

So far, Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel—also a member of the community—has declined the demand. As many as communities fall under the OBC category now. The Patels have a history of mounting large agitations. In the s, ironically, they protested vociferously against reservations for other communities. One reason the Patels want to be OBCs, believes social scientist Achyut Yagnik, who is based in Ahmedabad, is to get their children into medical and engineering colleges or institutions providing technical education which could make it easier for them to migrate abroad, as well as find jobs locally.

The fact that they are poorly represented in these sectors is because the Patels have traditionally chosen to go into business at a young age, instead of pursuing higher studies. Now they are looking for a change. So Hanvant Singh entered into negotiations with Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who is reported to have given the Maharaja a signed blank sheet of paper to list all his demands.

From free access to the Karachi port to arms manufacturing and importing, the princely state was allowed to accede to Pakistan on any terms it chose. After the carrots, came the stick in the form of more important warnings — it was pointed out that the accession of a predominantly Hindu state to Pakistan would violate the basic tenet of the two-nation theory and was very likely to cause communal violence in the State.

Patel asked Pakistan to reverse its acceptance of the accession and to hold a plebiscite. When it refused, he sent the Indian Army to annex the princely state on November 1, As for Kashmir, a princely state with a Hindu king ruling over a predominant Muslim population, it had remained reluctant to join either of the two dominions.

The case of this strategically-located kingdom was not just very different but also one of the toughest as it had important international boundaries — to the east was Tibet, to the northeast lay China and to the northwest was Afghanistan. Planes were diverted to Delhi-Srinagar route, and telephone and telegraph lines were laid between Pathankot, Amritsar and Jammu as well.

He further undertook strategic steps to place the Indian Army in an advantageous position. Watching the prospects of Kashmir slipping out of its hand, Pakistan planned an invasion. On October 22, , over 5, Pakistani lashkars armed tribesmen Army, invaded Kashmir. Two days later, a desperate Maharaja Hari Singh offered to accede to India in return for immediate military assistance.

Patel realised immediately that the battle would be long and planned for the same. Taking it upon himself to build the missing link, Patel ensured that, within a fortnight, necessary materials was sourced. Workers brought through special trains started working round the clock to complete the job. Gadgil felt that the temple should be renovated.

He mentioned the idea to Patel, who at once agreed and publicly proposed it. The Jamsaheb of Nawanagar, who was with them, donated a lakh of rupees on the spot, and Samaldas announced that the Arzi Hukumat would give Rs 51, By the time Somnath was renovated, Patel, who had agreed to perform the inaugural ceremony, was dead. If Jinnah could take hold of a Hindu-majority state with a Muslim ruler, why should the Sardar not be interested in a Muslim-majority State with a Hindu ruler?

From that day Junagadh and Kashmir, the pawn and the Queen, became his simultaneous concerns. He would wrest the one and defend the other. He would also defend Hyderabad, to him the King on the chessboard. Had Jinnah allowed the King and the pawn to go to India, Patel, as we have seen, might have let the Queen go to Pakistan, but Jinnah rejected the deal.

Share your perspective on this article with a post on ScrollStack, and send it to your followers. Contribute Now. Vallabhbhai was not quite sure that he wanted the Kashmir apple. We should note that Mountbatten was quoting Vallabhbhai and not Nehru. Kashmir, the beautiful land of his forebears, was an apple that Jawaharlal did not want to lose. Above all, however, Junagadh was a pawn with which Jinnah hoped to get the Queen.

Kashmir was the Queen. On October 27 Bhutto wrote a pathetic letter to Jinnah: Our revenue [has] gone to the bottom. It was past midnight. Menon went to 1 Aurangzeb Road, woke Patel up and showed him the draft. The Sardar strongly objected to the offer of a plebiscite. After complimenting Bhutto and Jones for their realism and the Indian forces for their restraint, he touched on Kashmir and Hyderabad: If Hyderabad does not see the writing on the wall, it goes the way Junagadh has gone.

Pakistan attempted to set off Kashmir against Junagadh. When we raised the question of settlement in a democratic way, they Pakistan at once told us that they would consider it if we applied that policy to Kashmir. Our reply was that we would agree to Kashmir if they agreed to Hyderabad. Out of , registered voters, , exercised their franchise. Of this number only 91 voted for Pakistan. There was a separate but simultaneous poll in Manavadar, Mangrol, Babariawad and two other feudatories.

Out of 31, votes cast in these areas, only 39 were for Pakistan.