Former Jammu and Kashmir governor and Congress veteran Karan Singh has said that taking the Kashmir issue to the United Nations was "one of the few mistakes" late Prime Minister Jawarharlal Nehru made during his tenure. 

Speaking to news agency PTI, Karan Singh said: "I got into politics at the age of 18 because the situation developed in such a way that my father was obliged to leave the state under very painful circumstances. Reason was of course, Sheikh Abdullah. And why Sheikh Abdullah, because we had gone to the United Nations and had gone and agreed to a plebiscite. Maybe we need not have gone to the United Nations. In fact I don't think we should have gone. One of the few mistakes that Pandit ji made. I think Lord Mountbatten was the one who pushed him into that. So Sheikh Abdullah had a terrible anti-Dogra feeling all his life. So finally he went to Pandit ji (Nehru) and said that he can not win the election till Maharaja Hari Singh is in the state."

PTI