Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel led the integration of more than 500 states into India before and after the country got its independence from British rule. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is consider one of the most important faces of India’s freedom movement.
There are many unknown facts about Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
On the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel known as the Iron Man of India let’s take a look at some of the facts about him.
- Shri Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was one of the top senior leaders of the Indian National Congress (INC).
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel became India’s first Deputy Prime Minister after the Independence in 1947.
- Shri Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was also appoint as the first Home Minister of Independent India.
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel also oversaw the ministry of information and ministry of states.
- Shri Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel pass his matriculation at the age of 22.
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel wasn’t interest in politics but after meeting Gandhiji in Godhra in 1917.
- Shri Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel quit his job and join INC and became party’s secretary of the Gujarat Sabha.
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel travel to England when he was 36 years old, and enroll in a three-year course at the Middle Temple in the Inns of Court.
- Despite having no previous college experience, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel completed the course within 30 months and qualified as a barrister.
- During the time of plagues and famines in India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel join the movement to fight for exemption of taxes in Kheda at Gandhi’s call.
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was part of Gandhi’s Non-Cooperation Movement.
- Shri Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel travel extensively around West India in order to recruit 3,00,000 members.
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel also collect over Rs 1.5 million for the party fund.
- Shri Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel spread awareness across the nation extensively against untouchability, caste discrimination, alcohol consumption, and for women empowerment.
- During the imprisonment of Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel led the Satyagraha movement in Nagpur in 1923, which was against the British law of banning the hoisting of the Indian Flag.
Shri Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was one of the most influential figures of India in the 20th century.
To honour his legacy, ‘Statue of Unity’, world’s tallest statue was unveile in 2018.
‘Statue of Unity’, is located on the banks of Narmada river in Gujarat.
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