Sardar Patel

He had come out of the mosque and attacked Sardar Patel.

We were taught that Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse,
but we were never taught who attacked Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on 14 May 1939 in Bhavnagar—
who tried to kill him, and how many of the accused were sentenced to death or life imprisonment by the court.

On 14 and 15 May 1939, the fifth session of the Bhavnagar State Praja Parishad was to be held,
and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was to preside over it.

When Sardar Patel arrived in Bhavnagar, a grand procession was taken out from the railway station.

Sardar Patel was sitting in an open jeep, greeting people standing on both sides of the road.

When the procession reached Khar Gate Chowk, 57 so-called peace-loving people hiding in the Nagina Mosque rushed toward the jeep with swords, knives, and spears.

Two young men — Bacchubhai Patel and Jadhavbhai Modi — saw this.

They immediately surrounded Sardar Patel to protect him,
and without caring for their own lives, they took upon themselves the blows meant for Sardar Patel.

They became a shield for Sardar Patel and sacrificed their lives.

The attackers struck the two young men multiple times with swords —
Bacchubhai Patel was martyred on the spot, while Jadhavbhai Modi died in the hospital.

Even today, their statues stand at the very place where they gave their lives.

The then British government conducted a thorough investigation into the incident and formed a special court.

57 accused were arrested, among whom:

• Azad Ali
• Rustam Ali Sipahi

were sentenced to death.

The following 15 criminals were sentenced to life imprisonment:

• Kasim Dosa Ghanchi
• Latif Miyan Qazi
• Mohammad Karim Sainik
• Saiyed Hussain
• Chandra Gulab Sainik
• Hashim Sumra Tah
• Luhar Musa Abdullah
• Ali Miyan Ahmad Miyan Saiyed
• Ali Mamad Suleman
• Mohammad Suleman Kumbhar
• Abu Bakar Abdullah
• Luhar Ahmadia
• Mohammad Miyan Qazi

They told the court that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had given a speech in Kolkata against the Muslim League,
and therefore, a conspiracy to assassinate him was plotted.

It is extremely unfortunate that after Sardar Patel’s death, the Nehru government erased this historical event from history books,
so that future generations would never know that there had also been a deadly attack and assassination conspiracy against Sardar Patel.

 General Dwight D. Eisenhower   the concentration camps

When he arrived with his men at the concentration camps, he had no doubts.

He ordered that as many photographs as possible be taken of the mass graves where bones, clothes, decomposed skeletal bodies were piled up like random pyramids.

Photographs of all the freezing barracks that were used as dormitories, photographs of barbed wire, crematoria, uniforms, caps, control towers, weapons, torture instruments.

Photographs of survivors so close to death that they could speak to them and return them to anyone who looked at them without even having to open their mouths. Without speaking, without words.

Eisenhower demanded that all German residents of nearby towns be taken to concentration camps to see the reality of events and that these civilians be forced to bury the bodies of the dead.

And then he explained: " Let us have as much documentation as possible – whether it be film recordings, photographs, testimonies – because there will come a day when someone will stand up and say that none of this ever happened ."

Because one day someone will come and say that all this never happened: repeat, frame and sanctify this phrase.

What Eisenhower saw when he entered the camps changed him forever. Few accounts capture those moments in full detail, but the records he left behind tell a powerful story about leadership, shock, and the weight of truth.