‘Run for Unity’ organized in India

The event ‘Run for unity’ is being organised all over the country to commemorate the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Lakhs of people from more than 700districts will take part in the events to be organized on the occasion. Sardar Patel is credited for the integration of over 550 independent princely states into India from 1947–49 by Independence Act (1947). He is known as the “Bismarck of India”. As the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India, Sardar Patel organized relief efforts for refugees fleeing to Punjab and Delhi from Pakistan and worked to restore peace.