Sardar Patel had offered Kashmir to Pakistan: Cong leader
Senior Congress leader Saifuddin Soz has said, "Sardar (Vallabhbhai) Patel was a pragmatist and offered Kashmir (at the time of partition) to Liaquat Ali Khan (then Pakistan PM)." "He told him 'don't talk of Hyderabad, talk Kashmir; take Kashmir but don't talk of Hyderabad' as Khan was preparing for war and Patel wasn't," Soz added.