No Partition had Jinnah been made first PM: Rajbhar
The Hindu
Addressing a public meeting in Hardoi, the SP leader had said, "Sardar Patel understood the ground and he made decisions accordingly.”
Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Wednesday said there would have been no partition had been made the first prime minister, adding to the row on a remark by Samajwadi Party supremo .
Mr. Rajbhar made the assertion, in the wake of his poll ally Mr. Yadav talking of Jinnah in the same breath as Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru as freedom fighters, triggering criticism from BJP leaders, including UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
"Had Jinnah been made the first prime minister, the partition of the country would not have happened," Mr. Rajbhar told reporters in Varanasi.
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