Mysuru: Former MLC D. Madegowda said that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel played a key role in securing Mahatma Gandhi’s approval for the partition of India at the time of Independence.  He was speaking after inaugurating the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s birth anniversary celebrations organised at the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) Administrative Council Auditorium in the Muktagangothri campus here recently.  Madegowda said that although Mahatma Gandhi was initially opposed...