Even the last rites of the country’s first deputy prime minister were performed in “unceremonious” way, the BJP leader said at an election rally at Khambhat in Gujarat’s Anand district. “I am surprised that the Congress now praises Sardar Patel. Since my childhood, I have never heard any Congress leader talking about Patel.
Instead, they left no stone unturned to insult Patel, right from performing his last rites in an unceremonious manner to ensuring that no monument was built in his memory,” Shah said.
Voting for Khambhat and 92 other seats will take place on December 5, in the second phase of the Assembly elections.
Shah further said that it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who paid a real tribute to Patel by constructing the Statue of Unity, Patel’s statue which is…