"Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed met Sardar Patel and both had a frank discussion about Kashmir and Sheikh Abdullah. Bakshi asked Sardar Patel, 'why do you not take over the problem and finish it like Hyderabad?' Bakshi said Sheikh Abdullah has felt the same way and wanted to come but had a high blood pressure. He would bring him the next time. Both of them came again. both repeated what Bakshi has told Sardar Patel earlier. Sardar Patel's reply was laconic, 'you go to your friend and tell him to keep his hands off the Kashmir problem for two months and I will undertake to resolve it." — V. Shankar, Secretary to Sardar