India, May 27 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday claimed that terror activities against India would have stopped if the advice of Sardar Patel, the country's first home minister, had been accepted after the country's partition in 1947.

Addressing a rally in Gandhinagar, Modi claimed that Patel's advice on dealing with the Mujahideen fighters who invaded Kashmir to occupy on behalf of Pakistan was allegedly ignored.

"In 1947, Mother India was torn into pieces. The chains should have been cut, but the arms were chopped off. The country was divided into three parts, and the same night, the first terrorist attack took place on the soil of Kashmir. Pakistan captured a part of Mother India with the help of terrorists, in the name of M...