Date: 11/10/2020
*Please read this part of the real life story of Sardar Patel's daughter*
*From the wall of Lakshmichand ji Soni:*
*UNKNOWN MANIBEN AND UNGRATEFUL NEHRU!*
*Maniben Patel was Sardar Patel's only daughter!*
*When only 16, she switched to Khadi and worked in Gandhi Ashram!*
*When 17, she put all her gold bangles, earrings Gold Wrist Watch and all other ornaments & jewellery in a bundle of cloth, and obtained her Father's nod, deposited them in Gandhi Ashram, for the cause of Freedom!*
*All the garments that Sardar Patel used to wear after 1921, were woven out of the yarn made by Maniben!*
*Unlike Nehru's daughter Indira, Maniben was a Freedom Fighter, and actively participated in the Non-Co-operation Movement!*
*In 1928, in the Bardoli Satyagraha, she helped out Satyagrahis in various Camps!*
*She was arrested and jailed in 1930 in the Salt Satyagraha!*
*Thereafter, she was arrested and jailed on several occasions!*
*Defying the ban in Bardoli, arrested in 1932, again re-arrested for defying ban in Kheda and sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, for arousing people in villages of Rajkot arrested in 1938!*
*Gandhiji complimented the girl that he had not seen another daughter like Maniben!*
*Under Gandhiji's selective disobedience, Maniben was arrested in 1940 and was released from Belgaum jail in May 1941!*
*When she again wanted to court arrest, Gandhiji had prevented this frail girl for ill-health!*
*She got arrested during the Quit India Movement of 1942, together with Kasturba Gandhi, and was released in March 1944; but again re-arrested in May 1944 in Bardoli! And was sent to Surat Jail & then to Yervada jail!*
*She didn't get married and served her Father till Sardar Patel died in 1950!*
*Here is a shocking episode relating to Maniben, based on various sources of info, specifically Dr. Verggese Kurien's autobiography: 'I too had a Dream'!*
*Sardar Patel had no bank balance or property!*
*Even though he had substantial earnings as a very successful Lawyer, he gave away everything after plunging into the Freedom Movement!*
*He used to say: THOSE IN POLITICS SHOULD NOT HOLD PROPERTY, AND I HOLD NONE!*
*Today, everybody in the Congress, may think of Sardar Patel as a Big Fool! But that was the selfless Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel!*
*When Sardar died, he left nothing for his daughter!*
*With Sardar no more, she had to vacate the house! With no roof over her head and no money, Maniben had to fend for herself!*
*Obeying Sardar Patel's parting instructions, Maniben had gone to Nehru to hand over a bag and a book!*
*Dutifully, she took an appointment with PM Nehru, she handed over the bag and the book to Nehru in person!*
*The book was an Account Book! The bag contained Rs. Thirty Five Lakhs! (It was in 1950)!*
*After delivering both to Nehru, she waited a while!*
*Nehru did not thank her!*
*Nehru didn't enquire what she would now do!*
*Nehru didn't ask where she would stay!*
*Nehru didn't ask if she had any money on her!*
*Nehru didn't ask if she was in need of any assistance or needed help!*
*Nehru didn't ask, if he could do anything for her!*
*Nehru, did not show or speak of any sympathy, and had shown absolutely no interest in her!*
*For him, after receiving the huge sum of Rs. 35 lakhs, Maniben didn't exist any more!*
*And the Congressmen, having no character, were preoccupied in licking the boots of the Nehru family, which they continue with great fervor even today, after seven decades!*
*Maniben went back to Ahmedabad, to stay with a cousin for the rest of her life, forgotten by an ungrateful Congress!*
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