"The issue of integration of states after Independence was handled cleverly by Sardar VallabhBhai Patel but Nehru, who took charge of handling the Jammu and Kashmir issue, failed in his endeavour and referred the matter to the UN," he said addressing a function organised to release a special internal security edition of RSS monthly Rastradharma here.
Mr Advani alleged that the Congress mishandling of internal security led to the border dispute with China and "India had to face the defeat" in the 1962 Chinese aggression. He also attacked the Congres for "failing miserably" in dealing with terrorism and the Naxalite problem and was going in for a nuclear deal with the US due to which the country would lose its nuclear autonomy.
Claiming that the Bharatiya Jan Sangh was the first party that demanded conducting tests in its convention at Varanasi in 1966, Mr Advani said after the first nuclear test in Pokhran 1974, the Congress "could not muster the courage to conduct further tests". He said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had in the Rajya Sabha opposed the Pokhran nuclear tests conducted by the NDA regime in 1998.