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Even as protests from the Patidar community against him are brewing across Gujarat, the newly ordained BJP lad on Monday abruptly retracted his claim of receiving threats and quickly deleted his WhatApp messages about this within minutes of putting them up. His comrades of the Patidar movement as well as youth especially in north Gujarat, […]
Exactly 59 seconds. This is what it took to wrap up the much-touted and much-awaited joining ceremony of once-firebrand Patidar leader Hardik Patel into the BJP on Thursday. The lad, who once shook the ruling BJP with his first rally attracting a mammoth crowd of 10 lakh in August 2015, had to wait for a […]
Gujarat Congress slammed Hardik Patel on Thursday, saying that Patel revealed his opportunistic political character, when he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Addressing a press conference, Congress Chief Spokesperson Manish Doshi said that Hardik Patel was a pseudo-Patidar leader with malicious ideology. Former Congressman Hardik Patel joined the BJP today and his inculcation ceremony was led […]
From ‘Jay Sardar, Jay Patidar’ to ‘Meri Congress Mahaan’, Former Patidar agitation leader on Thursday changed his tune and said that I’m a small soldier in the army of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He joined the Bharatiya Janta Party in presence of Gujarat BJP President and Navsari MP CR Paatil, Former Deputy CM of Gujarat […]
Hardik Patel on Thursday claimed that many congress leaders will leave the party to join the Bharatiya Janta Party. Speaking to the reporters after doing ‘Surya Puja’ and ‘Durga Puja’ Former Patidar Anamat Andolan leader who was instrumental in bringing down BJP Government led by current Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel said in coming days […]
Former Gujarat leader Hardik Patel’s close confidantes of his Patidar agitation days have called his joining the BJP on Thursday a “political suicide” and questioned him about justice to the families of 14 Patel youngsters who died during the 2015 reservation stir. Alpesh Kathiria, who leads the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) now and also […]
Gujarat BJP has been forced to organise two separate functions on Thursday after Patidar leader Hardik Patel threw up a tantrum protesting against Shweta Brahmbhatt joining the party along with him. During discussions on the formalities of the former Congress Working President, who quit the party on May 17, and is joining the BJP on […]
Pursuit of power and lure of the lucre could often result in collapse of all ideologies. This explains why Hardik Patel, once described as a firebrand lad who shook the mighty BJP in its own home, is on Thursday joining the same dispensation that he was determined to dismantle. He often called Union Home Minister […]
Young Turk Hardik Patel, who led the biggest Patidar agitation between 2015 and 2017 and described Union Home Minister Amit Shah as General Dyre, is finally on his knees and all set to join the BJP next week. According to sources close to Patel, he will embrace the BJP on May 30 or May […]
Jignesh Mevani, an independent MLA from Vadgam who allies with Congress, this morning, said that the most important aspect in political activism is ethics and Hardik Patel, through his comments against the Congress has shown that he has no ethical inclination. “Hardik’s jibe over Congress was unethical and exposed his lack of integrity,” Mevani told […]
Stung by the resignation of Patidar leader Hardik Patel from the party, the Gujarat Congress on Wednesday came down heavily on him alleging that his reasons for quitting were a BJP-sponsored narration. Reacting to Hardik’s statements about the Congress leadership, Rajya Sabha MP and Gujarat Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil said nobody had stopped Patel from […]
A day after claiming that he is looking forward to the Congress party’s 3-day national brainstorming session that began on Friday in Udaipur in neighbouring Rajasthan since it may throw up fresh ideas and a new direction, Gujarat Congress Working President Hardik Patel gave the first day of the session a miss. The Patidar leader […]
Gujarat Congress working president Hardik Patel, who has been sulking for some time for an “ambiguous” role being given to him, on Thursday denied all speculations that he may join the BJP or the Aam Aadmi Party and reiterated that he was only asking for clearly defined responsibilities. In an interview to NDTV, Patel said, […]
The road for young Patidar leader and Gujarat Congress working president Hardik Patel to join the BJP appears to be inching in. Though he continues to vehemently deny that he is joining the saffron party; he has been vocal about his “displeasure” with “nothing happening in Congress” and its “lazy leadership”(his words). Hardik however is […]
Less than a week after the Gujarat Congress struck a bonhomie of sorts with Patidar leader and its State working president Hardik Patel, who has been sulking for months of being given short shrift in the party, at a ceremony to observe the death anniversary of his father, the 29-year-old Patel is at it again. […]
The young sulking firebrand Patidar leader and working Gujarat Congress president Hardik Patel, who had kicked up a ruckus for allegedly being slighted and sending indications of quitting, has been finally won over. The occasion was a religious function on the first death anniversary of his father Bharat Patel at his hometown Viramgam, which was […]
While Prashant Kishor and Congress have decided to part ways in absence of a common route map, the grand old party is pinning hopes on regional heavyweights to secure its vote bank. Despite the blow-hot-blow-cold with Hardik Patel, the party is toeing the line very carefully with Khodaldham chairman Naresh Patel. He is the key […]
Even as it appears imminent that political strategist Prashant Kishor is expected to associate with the Congress party as a key planner for the Gujarat polls, it is public knowledge that he wishes powerful Leuva Patel leader Naresh Patel to play a major role, while ensuring that the young Hardik Patel, a Kadva Patidar, remains […]
Putting an end to months of speculation, Patidar leader Naresh Patel is tending “to go with the Congress.” Insiders stated that Naresh Bhai is waiting for the opportune moment to announce his decision. Interestingly, the BJP, Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party have been trying to woo Naresh Patel. However, the leader, declined all saying […]
With some nine months to go for the Gujarat 2022 elections, the political circles in the State are discussing only one name: Naresh Patel. While he has given broad indications of his political ambitions for long, political parties in Gujarat are debating which way he would go. The Congress has had seven meetings with him, […]
