Did Nehru oppose Kashmir’s accession to India? What Sardar Patel’s letters reveal

PM Modi recently claimed that Nehru had ‘prevented Patel from fully integrating Kashmir into the Indian Union’, drawing a sharp rebuttal from Congress president Kharge

The long-standing debate over whether India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his deputy Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had differing views on the Kashmir issue has once again come to the forefront.
At the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Sardar Patel in Ekta Nagar, Gujarat, on October 31, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that Nehru had “prevented Patel from fully integrating Kashmir into the Indian Union,” describing it as a “mistake” that led to “decades of turmoil and bloodshed.”