Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched a blistering attack on Congress as he paid tributes to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 150th birth anniversary and said the policies made by India's first Home Minister, the decisions he took created a new history and he achieved the unification of more than 550 princely states with the country. Addressing the Rashtriya Ekta Diwas programme in Kevadia in Gujarat, PM Modi said Congress "not only inherited the party and power from the British, but it also imbibed the mentality of slavery".

Congress president, Mallikarjun Kharge, who interacted with the media in the national capital, hit back and accused the BJP and the RSS of trying to appropriate Sardar Patel and his legacy "when he had banned the organisation after the assassination of Mahat

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