Cut The Clutter: Did Nehru really want Patel out of his first cabinet: fateful weeks in 1947, fact & fiction

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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.