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== Death ==
Sardaar Patel's health declined rapidly through the summer of 1949. He later began coughing blood, whereupon [[Maniben Patel|Maniben]] began limiting his meetings and working hours and arranged for a personalised medical staff to begin attending to Patel. The then [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]], Dr. [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]] heard Patel make jokes about his impending end, and in a private meeting Patel frankly admitted to his ministerial colleague [[N. V. Gadgil]] that he was not going to live much longer. Patel's health worsened after 2 November, when he began losing consciousness frequently and was confined to his bed. He was flown to Bombay on 12 December on advice from Dr{{nbsp}}Roy, to recuperate as his condition was deemed critical.{{sfn|Rajmohan Gandhi|1990|p=530}} Nehru, Rajagopalachari, Rajendra Prasad, and Menon all came to see him off at the airport in Delhi. Patel was extremely weak and had to be carried onto the aircraft in a chair. In Bombay, large crowds gathered at [[Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport|Santacruz Airport]] to greet him. To spare him from this stress, the aircraft landed at [[Juhu Aerodrome]], where Chief Minister [[B. G. Kher]] and [[Morarji Desai]] were present to receive him with a car belonging to the Governor of Bombay that took Vallabhbhai to Birla House.{{sfn|Rajmohan Gandhi|1990|p=532}}<ref name="kp99">{{Cite book |last=Pran Nath Chopra |first=Vallabhbhai Patel |title=The collected works of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Volume 15 |publisher=Konark Publishers |year=1999 |isbn=978-8122001785 |pages=195, 290}}</ref>
 
After suffering a massive heart attack (his second), Patel died on 15 December 1950 at Birla House in Bombay.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gazette of India – Extraordinary – Minister of Home Affairs (Resolution) |url=http://pib.nic.in/archive/docs/DVD_38/ACC%20NO%20807-BR/HOM-1950-12-16_629.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019214105/http://pib.nic.in/archive/docs/DVD_38/ACC%20NO%20807-BR/HOM-1950-12-16_629.pdf |archive-date=19 October 2017 |access-date=7 July 2017 |website=Press Information Bureau, Government of India}}</ref> In an unprecedented and unrepeated gesture, on the day after his death more than 1,500 officers of India's civil and police services congregated to mourn at Patel's residence in Delhi and pledged "complete loyalty and unremitting zeal" in India's service.{{sfn|Panjabi|1969|pp=157–158}} Numerous governments and world leaders sent messages of condolence upon Patel's death, including [[Trygve Lie]], the [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]], President [[Sukarno]] of [[Indonesia]], Prime Minister [[Liaquat Ali Khan]] of [[Dominion of Pakistan|Pakistan]] and Prime Minister [[Clement Attlee]] of the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World-Wide Homage to Sardar Patel – Condolence Messages |url=http://pib.nic.in/archive/docs/DVD_38/ACC%20NO%20807-BR/HOM-1950-12-18_628.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808193914/http://pib.nic.in/archive/docs/DVD_38/ACC%20NO%20807-BR/HOM-1950-12-18_628.pdf |archive-date=8 August 2017 |url-status=live |website=Press Information Bureau, Government of India}}</ref>
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