Kashmir & the blame game: What history tells us
Mountbatten kept trying to persuade Nehru to refer the dispute to the UN and ultimately succeeded.
PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah stated in Parliament on July 29 that the ceasefire in Kashmir in 1947 without securing Jammu & Kashmir, its referral to the UN and the ignoring of Sardar Patel's advice were Jawaharlal Nehru's three blunders which gave India a festering wound in perpetuity.