By way of PTI
AHMEDABAD: As soon as a fierce critic of Top Minister Narendra Modi, former Congress chief Hardik Patel, who is about to enroll in the ruling BJP in Gujarat on Thursday, posted a tweet within the morning pronouncing he would paintings as a “soldier” of PM Modi and get started a “new bankruptcy”.
Patel is about to enroll in the BJP at 12 pm on Thursday.
“As of late, I’m going to begin a brand new bankruptcy holding in thoughts the passion of the country, area, society and group. I can paintings as a small soldier within the building paintings of the country being performed underneath the management of Top Minister Narendra Modi,” he mentioned within the tweet.
Elections to the 182-member Area of the Gujarat Meeting are due by means of the top of this yr.
Patel had previous led an competitive agitation to call for quota for the Patidar group and centered the BJP executive over and over.
He used to be an overly vocal critic of the BJP up to now.
However the BJP executive had slapped a number of instances in opposition to him, together with that of sedition.
Patel, who had joined the Congress in 2019, resigned from the birthday celebration just lately.
After that, there used to be a hypothesis that he may sign up for the ruling BJP.
He had even praised the BJP’s decision-making capability and elegance of functioning, whilst significantly criticising the Congress management.
Prior to quitting the Congress, Patel had written a scathing letter to birthday celebration leader Sonia Gandhi, claiming that the Congress “most effective performed the position of a roadblock” over sure key problems within the nation and used to be “simply diminished to opposing the entirety”.
Patel first got here into limelight in 2015 when he spearheaded the motion challenging reservation for the Patidar group in executive jobs and academic institutes.
Even supposing he joined the opposition Congress in March 2019 forward of the Lok Sabha election, contesting the parliamentary election used to be now not imaginable for him because of his conviction in a rioting case.
He situated himself as a vocal critic of the BJP and stored concentrated on the birthday celebration and its governments within the state and on the Centre for being “anti-poor, anti-farmer and anti-youth”.
Since he used to be convicted in rioting and arson instances, it affected his possibilities of contesting an election.
Alternatively, the Best Courtroom just lately stayed his conviction.
Patel, who used to be charged underneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 124(A) (sedition), 121 (A) (conspiracy to salary struggle in opposition to executive) and 120 (B) (prison conspiracy), has been out on bail since 2016.
The BJP executive has just lately taken steps to withdraw a number of instances lodged in opposition to Patel and others associated with the 2015 reservation agitation and the violence that broke out through which 10 individuals, together with a policeman, have been killed and public homes and automobiles broken.