Question

How sheikh abdullah's note saved kashmir from felling into pak hands,?

Answer 1

Give army, take accession and give whatever powers you want to give to the popular party (National Conference headed by Sheikh Abdullah), but the army must fly to Srinagar this evening, otherwise I will go and negotiate terms with Mr (Mohammad Ali) Jinnah (the Pakistan leader) as the city must be saved,” beseeched Jammu and Kashmir’s then Prime Minister Mehar Chand Mahajan to Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

It was October 26, 1947, and the meeting in Nehru’s residence would eventually decide the future of Jammu and Kashmir.

Angered by Mahajan’s threat, Nehru told the J&K PM, “Mahajan, Go away.”