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A+ A-Hyderabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said Jammu and Kashmir’s integration with India was completed with the scrapping of Article 370. Paying rich tributes to India’s first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Shah said he achieved the challenging task of merging 630 states with the Indian Union. Shah said Jammu and Kashmir was the last missing point as its accession to India was not complete with the continuation of Article 370. He recalled that Patel, as the founder of civil services, had described civil servants as protectors of national interests. Shah said both elected representatives and civil servants get the opportunity to serve the nation but while elected representative get five years, the civil servants get this opportunity for 30 years..