As Prime Minister, Nehru focused on relations between the different provinces, forging an independent foreign and economic policy, and promoting security for Muslims as well as equality for women. The two men arrived at an effective sharing of responsibilities. Nehru was also much younger than Patel, and took greater interest in international affairs.Īfter Gandhi’s assassination, Patel set aside whatever reservations he had about Nehru’s leadership and served under him until his own death in December 1950. Nehru was a Hindu who was trusted by Muslims, a man who was committed to gender equality, a north Indian who had reached out to south India. However, as Vallabhbhai Patel’s own biographer has argued, Gandhi chose Jawaharlal Nehru as his political successor for sound reasons, namely, that Nehru appealed to a far greater cross-section of Indians than Patel, or indeed any other leader in the Congress Party.
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