#CutTheClutter
In Narayani Basu's latest book on V.P. Menon - Sardar Patel's close ally and senior bureaucrat - it has been claimed that Nehru did not include Patel in his first cabinet. This has stirred the old Nehru versus Patel debate that engages even External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar & historian Ramachandra Guha. Shekhar Gupta sifts fact from fiction in episode 390 of ThePrint's Cut The Clutter.
*Correction at 09:46- The picture shown is VK Krishna Menon. It should should be VP Menon.
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- Nehru never excluded Patel from cabinet list. Louis Mountbatten and V.P. Menon got it wrong -
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Негізгі бет Did Nehru really want Patel out of his first cabinet: fateful weeks in 1947, fact & fiction
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