Correct Option: C

As the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India, Sardar Vallabh bhai Patel led the task of forging a united India, successfully integrating into the newly independent nation those British colonial provinces that had been “allocated” to India. Employing iron hand policy, Patel persuaded almost every princely state to accede to India. His commitment to
national integration in the newly independent country earned him the sobriquet of “Iron Man of India.”