Mysuru: “When Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel visited Mysore in 1948 as India’s Home Minister, he had high fever and myself, along with the State Police Chief had to literally carry him on to the dais that was set up at a height of seven to eight feet at Town Hall.”
These were the words of nonagenarian Prof. K.G. Sathyanarayana, who in 1948 lifted Sardar Patel to the stage along with the then State Top Cop C.M.H. Janajoth Singh. Sathyanarayana was the leader of Rovers Scouts Unit at Maharaja’s College then. A resident of Panchamanthra Road in Kuvempunagar now, 91-year-old Sathyanarayana says that the memory of Sardar Patel’s visit was still fresh in his mind.
