New Delhi, May 27 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the May 22 attack on tourists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam as well as other terror incidents could have been avoided if India had heeded Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's advice in 1947.

Addressing an event in Gujarat's Gandhinagar, the Prime Minister said that Patel had advised not to stop the armed forces before they reached Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

"In 1947, Mother India was torn into pieces. Katni chahiye thi zanjeerein par kaat di gayi bhujayein (The chains should have been cut, but the arms were chopped off.) The country was divided into three parts, and on the same night, the first terrorist attack took place on the soil of Kashmir," PM Modi said.

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