By way of PTI
AHMEDABAD: An afternoon after resigning from the Congress, Patidar chief Hardik Patel on Thursday stated he has no longer taken any choice but on becoming a member of every other birthday party, be it the ruling BJP in Gujarat or the brand new entrant AAP.
Addressing a press convention right here, Patel (28) claimed the Congress had no imaginative and prescient and that leaders of the birthday party have been biased in opposition to Gujarati other people.
Forward of the Gujarat Meeting polls due later this yr, Patel on Wednesday resigned from the Congress, claiming best leaders of the birthday party have been distracted by way of their cell phones and that Gujarat Congress leaders have been extra eager about arranging rooster sandwiches for them.
Requested if he would sign up for the BJP or the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Celebration, Patel on Thursday stated, “I’ve no longer taken any choice as of now on becoming a member of any political birthday party, be it the BJP or AAP.”
Hitting out on the Congress, he stated the birthday party by no means speaks anything else at the problems regarding Hindus, such because the CAA (Citizenship Modification Act) or at the factor of a ‘Shivling’ (stated to be) present in a mosque in Varanasi.
“Additionally, the Gujarat Congress is an excessive amount of into caste-based politics. I wasted my 3 years on this birthday party,” Patel stated.
He claimed the Congress had no imaginative and prescient and that leaders of the birthday party have been biased in opposition to Gujarati other people, like “Adani and Ambani”.
On Wednesday, in his resignation letter to Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, he had accused the birthday party’s best management of behaving as though they hated Gujarat and Gujaratis, and stated he used to be quitting because the state Congress running president and from the birthday party’s number one club.
Patel had received prominence in 2015 after he led the agitation looking for reservation for the Patidar group within the state.
He used to be made the Gujarat Congress running president in July 2020.
