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Introduction

 Why Sardar Vallabbhai Patel?


 Transformational Leadership
 Journey from barrister to a leader
Bardoli Satyagraha

Skills Behaviour

• Influencing and team building • Firmness


• Communication • Delegate minded
• Negotiation • Charismatic
• Empathetic

Influence Process Relevant Aspects of Situation

Sardar Patel influenced the farmers of • High tax during natural disaster
Bardoli village as he came out as an • Poor Farmers and Lack of
efficient negotiator Resources
• Patel stood up for tax elimination
• Nine months struggle
Integration of 565 states

Skills Behaviour

• A Strong decision maker • Diplomatic


• Political Foresight • Persuasive
• Strategic Planner • Persistent
• Stress tolerant

Influence Process Relevant Aspects of Situation

• Convinced princely states by great • British Government’s policy to


vision of United India divide India into 565 small states
• Integration with either Patriotic • Sardar’s vision to unite India for
feelings or threat by the power of political and economic development.
united India
Comparison with other leaders

• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Subhas Chandra Bose
Burning issue of Kashmir

Skills Behaviour

• Proactive • Analytical
• Prognosticate • Imaginative
• Forward looking

Influence Process Relevant Aspects of Situation

Nehru declined Sardar’s advice which Sardar advised Nehru not to raise the
has become the biggest mistake in Kashmir issue in UN and to resolved it
history of Integration of India. that time only when the Army was
about to conquer Kashmir.
Nehru refused his advice and the issue
is still unsolved till today.
Achievements
• “Sardar” was given as forename to Vallabhbhai Patel
• Iron man of India
• Bharat Ratan Award
• National Unity day
• Statue of Unity

                                   By Yeshwanth Vukkurthy


                                         IX Wordsworth

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