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All IAS Officers shud take Scotch whisky in the evenings!

Sardar Patel's humorous side recalled on his Anniversary.

Though Sardar Patel was known as a no-nonsense man devoid of any sense of humour, Nair has written about lighter moments featuring him. (MKK Nair, a 1947 batch IAS officer, in his memoirs "With No Ill Feeling to Anybody"). 

The one centres around VP Menon with whom Patel had a special relationship. Menon had to face ire of Nesamani Nadar, a Congress MP from Kanyakumari, during his visit to Thiruvananthapuram in connection with the reorganisation of States. Nadar barged into Menon's suite in the State Guest House and shouted at him for not obeying his diktats. Menon, who was enjoying his quota of sun-downer, asked Nadar to get out of his room. A furious Nadar sent a six-page letter to Sardar Patel trading all kinds of charges against Menon. "He was fully drunk when I went to meet him in the evening and he abused me using the filthiest of languages," complained Nadar in his letter. 

Sardar Patel, who read the letter in full asked his secretary V.Shankar, an ICS officer: "Shankar, does VP take drinks?" Shankar, who was embarrassed by the question, had to spill the beans. "Sir, Menon takes a couple of drinks in the evening," he said. Sardar was curious to know what was Menon's favourite drink. Shankar replied that Menon preferred only Scotch. "Shankar, you instruct all government secretaries to take Scotch in the evening," Sardar told Shankar.

Nair writes that this anecdote was a rave in Delhi evenings for a number of year

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