Sashan
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Maybe - Maybe not - Many magazines have outlined this and Outlook had included this as one of the blunders in the list of blunders since independence.
Having stated that I would take whatever Nehru had said with a pinch of salt - Here is why - read the below snippet from the thread below.
The Party was in uproar. The Sardar had to plead that because of the international complications, a provisional approach alone could be made leaving the question of final relationship to be worked out according to the exigencies of the situation and mutual feelings and confidence that would have been by then created. Once the Sardar had taken charge, all opposition to the draft was silenced” And how Nehru responded to this great act of loyalty on part of Sardar? On 24 July 1952, after Sardar was no more, Nehru made a detailed statement on Kashmir in the Parliament on slow integration of Kashmir into India Union and mentioned that “Sardar Patel was all the time dealing with these matters.” Even Gopalaswami Ayyangar was dismayed at this blatant lie and mentioned to V Shankar “It is an ill return to the Sardar for the magnanimity he had shown in accepting Panditji’s point of view against his better judgment.”
http://www.defence.pk/forums/indian-defence/195506-article-370-untold-story.html
