There are two sub-themes to the argument of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party while appropriating Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s legacy. Second, Jawaharlal Nehru and his inheritors, premeditatedly undermined the Sardar’s memory because of being political pygmies and fearing his presence in the political discourse would hinder their project to eternalise the Congress. The first charge that history …