In his letter to Pant on 17 April 1950, Nehru was unequivocal in his expression of this frustration: I have not been to the U.P. for a long time. That is partly due to lack of time, but the real reason is that I hesitate to go there. I do not wish to come into conflict with my old colleagues and I feel terribly uncomfortable there, because I find that communalism has invaded the minds
