New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh said former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was responsible for the delayed integration of the erstwhile state.
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“If there was a delay of over two months, it was not on account of Maharaja Hari Singh but on account of the then Prime Minister Nehru who was not forthcoming in his approach and was instead being led by cues and inputs from Sheikh Abdullah (former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir),” Singh was quoted as saying by media reports .
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“The part of Jammu and Kashmir presently under Pakistan, as PaJK, would have also been a part of independent India,” the minister said.
