Srinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that strong governance and national unity had crushed the roots of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, asserting that the region’s complete integration after the abrogation of Article 370 reflected Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s vision of a united India.

He said Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had wanted to fully integrate Jammu and Kashmir with India, just as he did with other princely states, but that then Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru did not allow it.

Addressing the gathering after the Rashtriya Ekta Diwas parade at Ekta Nagar in Gujarat on the 150th birth anniversary of Sardar Patel, Modi said Patel’s goal was to bring every princely state under one flag and Constitution.

“Sardar Patel wanted to unite the entire Kashmir, just as he di

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