He was speaking after flagging off 'Run for Unity' event here as part of the National Unity Day, which is celebrated on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Patel.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has announced that the Government of India will commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Sardar Patel with a two-year-long nationwide celebration from 2024 to 2026.
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
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.
BJP and Congress have to live together in harmony for the future of the country. What the new rulers did not realise was that some of the tallest Congress leaders since Independence were revered by all segments of the population.
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