Patel would guide the Congress ministries that had won power across India with the aim of preserving party discipline-Patel feared that the British would use opportunities to create conflicts among elected Congressmen, and he did not want the party to be distracted from the goal of complete independence.

While he was there, he won a reality TV show with the aim of unearthing a new football star.

In 1993 his novel Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore won the Urania Award, which was established by Urania, Italy's main science fiction magazine, with the aim of discovering new talent in the field.