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  • Gujarat court docket problems arrest warrant in opposition to Hardik Patel for failure to seem earlier than it in 2017 case

    By way of PTI

    SURENDRANAGAR: A court docket in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district has issued an arrest warrant in opposition to Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) MLA Hardik Patel for failing to seem earlier than it in a 2017 case wherein he’s accused of violating a central authority order.

    Patel had made a political speech in violation of a central authority order at a village within the district forward of the 2017 Gujarat Meeting elections.

    Further leader judicial Justice of the Peace D D Shah at Dhrangadhra issued the arrest warrant in opposition to Patel for failure to seem the court docket.

    Thru its order dated February 2, the court docket directed the Dhrangadhra taluka police station officer in Surendranagar district to arrest Patel and convey him earlier than the court docket with out fail.

    The order was once gained through the police station on February 11, an respectable showed.

    A primary data document (FIR) was once registered at Dhrangadhra taluka police station on January 12, 2018 after Patel and a co-accused Kaushik Patel have been discovered to have violated the situation of the permission granted to them to organise a gathering at Haripar village within the district.

    As consistent with the FIR, the duo had sought permission to organise a gathering on the village on November 26, 2017, forward of the Meeting elections.

    Whilst they have been granted the permission, they allegedly violated the notification issued through the extra district Justice of the Peace in a speech delivered all over the assembly.

    They have been booked beneath sections 37 (3) and 135 of the Gujarat (Bombay) Police Act, 1951, coping with punishment for disobeying govt orders.

    Significantly, a court docket at Jamnagar had closing week acquitted Patel in a equivalent case for creating a political speech in violation of a central authority order at a rally at Dhutarpar village in November 2017.

    At the moment, Patel headed the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), a Patidar neighborhood organisation that organised state-wide agitation hard reservation beneath OBC quota for the youths.

    The agitation had became violent.

    Patel had joined the Congress in 2019, which he hand over forward of the December 2022 Gujarat polls and was once therefore elected as an MLA on a BJP price ticket from Viramgam constituency of Ahmedabad.

    He faces greater than two dozen circumstances, together with two sedition circumstances, in Gujarat.

    SURENDRANAGAR: A court docket in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district has issued an arrest warrant in opposition to Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) MLA Hardik Patel for failing to seem earlier than it in a 2017 case wherein he’s accused of violating a central authority order.

    Patel had made a political speech in violation of a central authority order at a village within the district forward of the 2017 Gujarat Meeting elections.

    Further leader judicial Justice of the Peace D D Shah at Dhrangadhra issued the arrest warrant in opposition to Patel for failure to seem the court docket.

    Thru its order dated February 2, the court docket directed the Dhrangadhra taluka police station officer in Surendranagar district to arrest Patel and convey him earlier than the court docket with out fail.

    The order was once gained through the police station on February 11, an respectable showed.

    A primary data document (FIR) was once registered at Dhrangadhra taluka police station on January 12, 2018 after Patel and a co-accused Kaushik Patel have been discovered to have violated the situation of the permission granted to them to organise a gathering at Haripar village within the district.

    As consistent with the FIR, the duo had sought permission to organise a gathering on the village on November 26, 2017, forward of the Meeting elections.

    Whilst they have been granted the permission, they allegedly violated the notification issued through the extra district Justice of the Peace in a speech delivered all over the assembly.

    They have been booked beneath sections 37 (3) and 135 of the Gujarat (Bombay) Police Act, 1951, coping with punishment for disobeying govt orders.

    Significantly, a court docket at Jamnagar had closing week acquitted Patel in a equivalent case for creating a political speech in violation of a central authority order at a rally at Dhutarpar village in November 2017.

    At the moment, Patel headed the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), a Patidar neighborhood organisation that organised state-wide agitation hard reservation beneath OBC quota for the youths.

    The agitation had became violent.

    Patel had joined the Congress in 2019, which he hand over forward of the December 2022 Gujarat polls and was once therefore elected as an MLA on a BJP price ticket from Viramgam constituency of Ahmedabad.

    He faces greater than two dozen circumstances, together with two sedition circumstances, in Gujarat.

  • Gujarat: Clinching Viramgam seat in ballot debut is not any cakewalk for Patidar face Hardik Patel

    Via PTI

    VIRAMGAM: The ruling BJP in Gujarat has fielded newly-inducted younger Patidar chief Hardik Patel to seize from the Congress the Viramgam Meeting seat that had thrown up a wonder within the ultimate election and is thought of as resistant to caste politics as leaders from other castes and religions, together with a minority neighborhood, have represented it to this point.

    For the 29-year-old Patel, a local of Chandranagar village of Viramgam taluka of Ahmedabad who used to be born and taken up in Viramgam the town, it’s his maiden Meeting election.

    He’s going to lock horns with sitting Congress MLA Lakhabhai Bharwad, who defeated Bharatiya Janata Celebration’s Tejashree Patel in 2017 by way of a margin of over 6,500 votes.

    Viramgam Meeting phase, which contains Viramgam, Mandal and Detroj talukas of Ahmedabad, has been with the Congress for the ultimate 10 years. This and 92 different seats will move to polls in the second one segment on December 5.

    Apparently, within the 2012 Meeting polls, Tejashree Patel had contested as a Congress candidate and defeated BJP’s Pragji Patel by way of a margin of greater than 16,000 votes.

    Throughout her tenure because the Congress MLA, she left her mark as a fierce critic of the ruling BJP, each outside and inside the Meeting.

    Alternatively, to everybody’s wonder, when she switched facets and fought at the BJP price ticket in 2017, electorate rejected her and selected Congress’ Lakhabhai Bharwad, who belonged to the Different Backward Elegance (OBC).

    Whilst some electorate really feel that Bharwad is dealing with anti-incumbency now, some others say he has been energetic as an MLA and labored arduous to get to the bottom of the native problems, and therefore defeating him would no longer be simple for Hardik.

    Viramgam contains just about 3 lakh electorate, together with 65,000 Thakor (OBC) electorate, 50,000 Patidars or Patel electorate, just about 35,000 Dalits, 20,000 Bharwad and Rabari neighborhood electorate, 20,000 Muslims, 18,000 Koli participants and 10,000 Karadia (OBC) Rajputs.

    Alternatively, this seat has to this point given MLAs from other castes, together with Tejashree Patel (Patidar), Daudbhai Patel (Muslim) in 1980, Kamabhai Rathod (Karadia Rajput) in 2007 and Lakhabhai Bharwad (OBC).

    “Other folks of Viramgam by no means vote on caste traces. That’s the reason why applicants from other castes have gained over the a long time. Citizens of this seat handiest see efficiency and dedication against folks and the celebration. I’m assured of maintaining this seat,” mentioned Bharwad when requested if Hardik’s nomination would possibly create bother for him this time.

    Bharwad is depending on his previous efficiency and the paintings accomplished for the folks or a minimum of elevating the problems within the Meeting in addition to on the native stage to get an answer.

    Each Viramgam Municipality and Taluka Panchayat are with the BJP.

    “Previous, the situation of roads within the constituency used to be unhealthy as they weren’t resurfaced for seven years. However because of my constant efforts, they have got resurfaced. Alternatively, the folks of Viramgam the town are struggling since the BJP is ruling the municipality. Individuals are conscious about who’s at fault and who did their paintings,” Bharwad mentioned.

    Some locals additionally recommended Bharwad’s claims concerning the paintings he had accomplished as far as an MLA.

    “There’s no doubt that Patel is extra fashionable. However it’s also a indisputable fact that Bharwad used to be energetic as an MLA and labored arduous to get to the bottom of our problems, be it unhealthy roads or overflowing gutters. We now have observed him at the floor. Although he used to be no longer in a position to unravel all of the problems, folks know that he had attempted,” mentioned auto driving force Kantilal Parmar.

    Any other voter claimed that Hardik’s probabilities of profitable had greater with the renomination of Bharwad.

    “Bharwad is dealing with anti-incumbency. Having a look on the caste equations, Congress will have to have fielded any person from Thakor neighborhood. Now, Hardik’s possibilities have long gone up with Bharwad’s renomination,” he mentioned.

    The Aam Aadmi Celebration could also be within the fray, which to begin with gave a price ticket to at least one Kunvarji Thakor, ahead of changing him with Amarsinh Thakor.

    Kunvarji used to be unsatisfied with the improvement and made up our minds to combat as an impartial. In 2017, he contested as an impartial and secured fourth position with 10,800 votes.

    One Kirit Rathod, a identified Dalit activist from Viramgam, could also be within the fray as an impartial.

    Many consider that this trio, if they continue to be within the fray, can disrupt the vote casting equations and provides surprising effects. The ultimate date to withdraw nomination is November 21.

    Hardik, who rose to prominence after main the Patidar reservation agitation looking for OBC standing for the Patidar caste, joined the BJP in June after being with the Congress for just about two years.

    He’s now traveling villages of the area.

    Within the “listing of guarantees” issued by way of him, the primary one says he’ll ensure that Viramgam will get the standing of a district and rural individuals are already thanking Patel for taking over this factor.

    “Viramgam is large sufficient to be declared as a separate district. Other folks were difficult it for a while. This may occasionally get to the bottom of lots of our issues as a result of we need to commute all of the option to Ahmedabad for quite a lot of works associated with the collector’s workplace or for court-related issues. Hardik has rightly taken up the problem,” mentioned Amrat Patel, a neighborhood farmer.

    Different key guarantees come with construction a contemporary sports activities advanced, colleges, 50-bed hospitals every in Mandal taluka, Detroj taluka and close to Nal Sarovar, 1,000 govt homes in Viramgam the town, business property, and gardens, amongst others.

    Significantly, the four-page leaflet of guarantees does no longer in finding any point out of the phrase “Patidar” in it.

    In his brief bio, it’s discussed that he used to be born in a “Hindu circle of relatives” in Gujarat and his overdue father Bharatbhai used to be an energetic BJP employee on this area.

    Hinting on the EWS (economically weaker sections) quota presented in Gujarat after his agitation for reservation, the leaflet says Hardik’s “ancient agitation” used to be instrumental in offering many advantages not to only one however a number of communities.

    “Our marketing campaign goes very robust and individuals are showering their blessings on Hardik. Other folks don’t seem to be proud of Congress MLA and they would like a metamorphosis this time. We’re assured that individuals of Viramgam seat will vote for Hardik and as soon as once more convey BJP to energy within the state,” mentioned Hardik’s marketing campaign supervisor Dipak Patel.

    VIRAMGAM: The ruling BJP in Gujarat has fielded newly-inducted younger Patidar chief Hardik Patel to seize from the Congress the Viramgam Meeting seat that had thrown up a wonder within the ultimate election and is thought of as resistant to caste politics as leaders from other castes and religions, together with a minority neighborhood, have represented it to this point.

    For the 29-year-old Patel, a local of Chandranagar village of Viramgam taluka of Ahmedabad who used to be born and taken up in Viramgam the town, it’s his maiden Meeting election.

    He’s going to lock horns with sitting Congress MLA Lakhabhai Bharwad, who defeated Bharatiya Janata Celebration’s Tejashree Patel in 2017 by way of a margin of over 6,500 votes.

    Viramgam Meeting phase, which contains Viramgam, Mandal and Detroj talukas of Ahmedabad, has been with the Congress for the ultimate 10 years. This and 92 different seats will move to polls in the second one segment on December 5.

    Apparently, within the 2012 Meeting polls, Tejashree Patel had contested as a Congress candidate and defeated BJP’s Pragji Patel by way of a margin of greater than 16,000 votes.

    Throughout her tenure because the Congress MLA, she left her mark as a fierce critic of the ruling BJP, each outside and inside the Meeting.

    Alternatively, to everybody’s wonder, when she switched facets and fought at the BJP price ticket in 2017, electorate rejected her and selected Congress’ Lakhabhai Bharwad, who belonged to the Different Backward Elegance (OBC).

    Whilst some electorate really feel that Bharwad is dealing with anti-incumbency now, some others say he has been energetic as an MLA and labored arduous to get to the bottom of the native problems, and therefore defeating him would no longer be simple for Hardik.

    Viramgam contains just about 3 lakh electorate, together with 65,000 Thakor (OBC) electorate, 50,000 Patidars or Patel electorate, just about 35,000 Dalits, 20,000 Bharwad and Rabari neighborhood electorate, 20,000 Muslims, 18,000 Koli participants and 10,000 Karadia (OBC) Rajputs.

    Alternatively, this seat has to this point given MLAs from other castes, together with Tejashree Patel (Patidar), Daudbhai Patel (Muslim) in 1980, Kamabhai Rathod (Karadia Rajput) in 2007 and Lakhabhai Bharwad (OBC).

    “Other folks of Viramgam by no means vote on caste traces. That’s the reason why applicants from other castes have gained over the a long time. Citizens of this seat handiest see efficiency and dedication against folks and the celebration. I’m assured of maintaining this seat,” mentioned Bharwad when requested if Hardik’s nomination would possibly create bother for him this time.

    Bharwad is depending on his previous efficiency and the paintings accomplished for the folks or a minimum of elevating the problems within the Meeting in addition to on the native stage to get an answer.

    Each Viramgam Municipality and Taluka Panchayat are with the BJP.

    “Previous, the situation of roads within the constituency used to be unhealthy as they weren’t resurfaced for seven years. However because of my constant efforts, they have got resurfaced. Alternatively, the folks of Viramgam the town are struggling since the BJP is ruling the municipality. Individuals are conscious about who’s at fault and who did their paintings,” Bharwad mentioned.

    Some locals additionally recommended Bharwad’s claims concerning the paintings he had accomplished as far as an MLA.

    “There’s no doubt that Patel is extra fashionable. However it’s also a indisputable fact that Bharwad used to be energetic as an MLA and labored arduous to get to the bottom of our problems, be it unhealthy roads or overflowing gutters. We now have observed him at the floor. Although he used to be no longer in a position to unravel all of the problems, folks know that he had attempted,” mentioned auto driving force Kantilal Parmar.

    Any other voter claimed that Hardik’s probabilities of profitable had greater with the renomination of Bharwad.

    “Bharwad is dealing with anti-incumbency. Having a look on the caste equations, Congress will have to have fielded any person from Thakor neighborhood. Now, Hardik’s possibilities have long gone up with Bharwad’s renomination,” he mentioned.

    The Aam Aadmi Celebration could also be within the fray, which to begin with gave a price ticket to at least one Kunvarji Thakor, ahead of changing him with Amarsinh Thakor.

    Kunvarji used to be unsatisfied with the improvement and made up our minds to combat as an impartial. In 2017, he contested as an impartial and secured fourth position with 10,800 votes.

    One Kirit Rathod, a identified Dalit activist from Viramgam, could also be within the fray as an impartial.

    Many consider that this trio, if they continue to be within the fray, can disrupt the vote casting equations and provides surprising effects. The ultimate date to withdraw nomination is November 21.

    Hardik, who rose to prominence after main the Patidar reservation agitation looking for OBC standing for the Patidar caste, joined the BJP in June after being with the Congress for just about two years.

    He’s now traveling villages of the area.

    Within the “listing of guarantees” issued by way of him, the primary one says he’ll ensure that Viramgam will get the standing of a district and rural individuals are already thanking Patel for taking over this factor.

    “Viramgam is large sufficient to be declared as a separate district. Other folks were difficult it for a while. This may occasionally get to the bottom of lots of our issues as a result of we need to commute all of the option to Ahmedabad for quite a lot of works associated with the collector’s workplace or for court-related issues. Hardik has rightly taken up the problem,” mentioned Amrat Patel, a neighborhood farmer.

    Different key guarantees come with construction a contemporary sports activities advanced, colleges, 50-bed hospitals every in Mandal taluka, Detroj taluka and close to Nal Sarovar, 1,000 govt homes in Viramgam the town, business property, and gardens, amongst others.

    Significantly, the four-page leaflet of guarantees does no longer in finding any point out of the phrase “Patidar” in it.

    In his brief bio, it’s discussed that he used to be born in a “Hindu circle of relatives” in Gujarat and his overdue father Bharatbhai used to be an energetic BJP employee on this area.

    Hinting on the EWS (economically weaker sections) quota presented in Gujarat after his agitation for reservation, the leaflet says Hardik’s “ancient agitation” used to be instrumental in offering many advantages not to only one however a number of communities.

    “Our marketing campaign goes very robust and individuals are showering their blessings on Hardik. Other folks don’t seem to be proud of Congress MLA and they would like a metamorphosis this time. We’re assured that individuals of Viramgam seat will vote for Hardik and as soon as once more convey BJP to energy within the state,” mentioned Hardik’s marketing campaign supervisor Dipak Patel.

  • EWS quota resolved many problems with Patels, neighborhood status with BJP this time: Hardik Patel

    By way of PTI

    AHMEDABAD: The Centre’s resolution of 10 according to cent EWS reservation with out aggravating the prevailing quota resolved many problems with the Patels in Gujarat and the neighborhood will be certain the BJP’s huge victory within the upcoming meeting polls, birthday party chief Hardik Patel stated.

    The spearhead of the 2015 Patidar quota stir stated the agitation had without delay impacted just about 20 meeting segments within the 2017 Gujarat election.

    He had supported the Congress all over the 2017 polls.

    The Centre in January 2019 applied the ten according to cent reservation for the economically weaker sections (EWS) from the overall class through amending the Charter.

    It additionally issued directions for expanding the full selection of seats in educational establishments to supply EWS reservations with out adversely affecting the proportionate seats of the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Different Backward Categories (OBCs) classes.

    Previous this month, the Excellent Court docket in a three:2 majority resolution upheld the ten according to cent reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS) in admissions and govt jobs that excluded the deficient a number of the SCs, STs, and OBCs.

    “Patidars are united and feature determined to again High Minister Narendra Modi. Within the 2017 elections, the problem used to be other. The ten according to cent EWS quota has prolonged reservation advantages for the deficient and the disadvantaged from different sections whilst together with the Patels of Gujarat. This time, the Patels will make certain that BJP will get an enormous majority,” Patel informed PTI in an interview.

    He hailed High Minister Modi’s management, and termed his resolution at the EWS quota “ancient”.

    It is going to get advantages the deficient from greater than 50 communities, he stated.

    ALSO READ | Tamil Nadu events flip down 10 according to cent EWS quota modification

    “It (EWS reservation) will immensely get advantages the BJP. Remaining time, the Patidar agitation impacted just about 20 seats without delay and had an oblique impact on many different seats. However now, no longer handiest Patels however many communities gets reservation advantages,” Patel stated.

    In regards to the have an effect on of AAP’s foray into Gujarat meeting polls, Patel didn’t see the Arvind Kejriwal-led birthday party posing many demanding situations to the BJP.

    For him, the Congress is the closest rival even though a far off 2nd within the polls.

    “The AAP is loose to contest elections. Nevertheless it has harm the non secular sentiments of the folk of Gujarat with its chief’s remarks in opposition to Lord Vishnu and Mahesh. It’s preventing the Congress for a similar area however as of now apparently the Congress can be a far off 2nd within the elections,” he stated.

    On his leaving the Congress to enroll in the BJP, Patel stated his problems were resolved and he used to be at all times “BJP-minded and ideologically nearer to Hindutva and nationalism”.

    The 29-year-old Hardik Patel rose to prominence because the face of the Patidar agitation in Gujarat between 2015 and 2016.

    He joined the Congress in 2020 and served as its Gujarat unit operating president.

    Previous this 12 months, he crossed over to the BJP which fielded him from the Viramgam constituency in Ahmedabad.

    Birthday celebration leaders were calling him a “fighter chief”.

    When requested about leader ministers converting in Gujarat, Hardik stated BJP is the birthday party of all the Gujarati society and “it offers illustration to each caste on the suitable time”.

    “The folk of Gujarat have complete religion within the BJP. They include all its choices and have a look at High Minister Modi and Amit Shah whilst vote casting for the birthday party,” he stated.

    AHMEDABAD: The Centre’s resolution of 10 according to cent EWS reservation with out aggravating the prevailing quota resolved many problems with the Patels in Gujarat and the neighborhood will be certain the BJP’s huge victory within the upcoming meeting polls, birthday party chief Hardik Patel stated.

    The spearhead of the 2015 Patidar quota stir stated the agitation had without delay impacted just about 20 meeting segments within the 2017 Gujarat election.

    He had supported the Congress all over the 2017 polls.

    The Centre in January 2019 applied the ten according to cent reservation for the economically weaker sections (EWS) from the overall class through amending the Charter.

    It additionally issued directions for expanding the full selection of seats in educational establishments to supply EWS reservations with out adversely affecting the proportionate seats of the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Different Backward Categories (OBCs) classes.

    Previous this month, the Excellent Court docket in a three:2 majority resolution upheld the ten according to cent reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS) in admissions and govt jobs that excluded the deficient a number of the SCs, STs, and OBCs.

    “Patidars are united and feature determined to again High Minister Narendra Modi. Within the 2017 elections, the problem used to be other. The ten according to cent EWS quota has prolonged reservation advantages for the deficient and the disadvantaged from different sections whilst together with the Patels of Gujarat. This time, the Patels will make certain that BJP will get an enormous majority,” Patel informed PTI in an interview.

    He hailed High Minister Modi’s management, and termed his resolution at the EWS quota “ancient”.

    It is going to get advantages the deficient from greater than 50 communities, he stated.

    ALSO READ | Tamil Nadu events flip down 10 according to cent EWS quota modification

    “It (EWS reservation) will immensely get advantages the BJP. Remaining time, the Patidar agitation impacted just about 20 seats without delay and had an oblique impact on many different seats. However now, no longer handiest Patels however many communities gets reservation advantages,” Patel stated.

    In regards to the have an effect on of AAP’s foray into Gujarat meeting polls, Patel didn’t see the Arvind Kejriwal-led birthday party posing many demanding situations to the BJP.

    For him, the Congress is the closest rival even though a far off 2nd within the polls.

    “The AAP is loose to contest elections. Nevertheless it has harm the non secular sentiments of the folk of Gujarat with its chief’s remarks in opposition to Lord Vishnu and Mahesh. It’s preventing the Congress for a similar area however as of now apparently the Congress can be a far off 2nd within the elections,” he stated.

    On his leaving the Congress to enroll in the BJP, Patel stated his problems were resolved and he used to be at all times “BJP-minded and ideologically nearer to Hindutva and nationalism”.

    The 29-year-old Hardik Patel rose to prominence because the face of the Patidar agitation in Gujarat between 2015 and 2016.

    He joined the Congress in 2020 and served as its Gujarat unit operating president.

    Previous this 12 months, he crossed over to the BJP which fielded him from the Viramgam constituency in Ahmedabad.

    Birthday celebration leaders were calling him a “fighter chief”.

    When requested about leader ministers converting in Gujarat, Hardik stated BJP is the birthday party of all the Gujarati society and “it offers illustration to each caste on the suitable time”.

    “The folk of Gujarat have complete religion within the BJP. They include all its choices and have a look at High Minister Modi and Amit Shah whilst vote casting for the birthday party,” he stated.

  • Patidar quota stir: HC eliminates Hardik’s bail situation of no longer getting into Mehsana got rid of for a yr

    Through PTI

    AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Top Court docket on Friday granted aid to Bharatiya Janata Birthday party chief Hardik Patel through putting off for a yr a bail situation prohibiting him from getting into the state’s Mehsana district in a rioting case attached with the 2015 Patidar quota stir.

    The court docket of Justice SH Vora granted brief aid to Patel, who had filed the bail amendment petition on November 7 at the flooring that he sought after to provide prayers on the temple of his “kuldevi” (native deity).

    The bail situation that he’s going to no longer input his house district Mehsana has been got rid of for a yr, Patel’s attorney Rafik Lokhandwala mentioned.

    Patel was once on Thursday declared because the BJP’s candidate for Viramgam seat in Ahmedabad district.

    A Gujarat court docket had, in July 2018, sentenced Patel and his aides Lalji Patel and AK Patel to 2 years in prison for rioting and arson that came about on July 23, 2015 in Visnagar the city all the way through the Patidar reservation agitation.

    On that day, a mob had torched a automobile and vandalised the place of business of Visnagar BJP MLA Rishikesh Patel.

    The Gujarat Top Court docket had, in August 2018, suspended the decrease court docket’s order and granted him bail.

    The HC barred him from getting into Mehsana as a bail situation and this persevered at the same time as his enchantment in opposition to conviction stays pending earlier than the court docket.

    AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Top Court docket on Friday granted aid to Bharatiya Janata Birthday party chief Hardik Patel through putting off for a yr a bail situation prohibiting him from getting into the state’s Mehsana district in a rioting case attached with the 2015 Patidar quota stir.

    The court docket of Justice SH Vora granted brief aid to Patel, who had filed the bail amendment petition on November 7 at the flooring that he sought after to provide prayers on the temple of his “kuldevi” (native deity).

    The bail situation that he’s going to no longer input his house district Mehsana has been got rid of for a yr, Patel’s attorney Rafik Lokhandwala mentioned.

    Patel was once on Thursday declared because the BJP’s candidate for Viramgam seat in Ahmedabad district.

    A Gujarat court docket had, in July 2018, sentenced Patel and his aides Lalji Patel and AK Patel to 2 years in prison for rioting and arson that came about on July 23, 2015 in Visnagar the city all the way through the Patidar reservation agitation.

    On that day, a mob had torched a automobile and vandalised the place of business of Visnagar BJP MLA Rishikesh Patel.

    The Gujarat Top Court docket had, in August 2018, suspended the decrease court docket’s order and granted him bail.

    The HC barred him from getting into Mehsana as a bail situation and this persevered at the same time as his enchantment in opposition to conviction stays pending earlier than the court docket.

  • BJP names 160 applicants for Gujarat polls; CM, Hardik, cricketer Jadeja’s spouse in first record

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: The BJP on Thursday launched its first record of 160 applicants for the two-phase elections to the 182-member Gujarat Meeting, fielding Leader Minister Bhupendra Patel from his constituency Ghatlodia and losing a lot of sitting MLAs.

    Names of Hardik Patel, the face of Patidar agitation within the 2017 meeting polls who later hand over the Congress to enroll in the BJP, and Rivaba Jadeja, spouse of cricketer Ravindra Jadeja, determine at the record.

    Whilst Hardik Patel will contest from Viramgam, Rivaba Jadeja has been fielded from Jamnagar North.

    Freeing the record, Union minister Bhupendra Yadav stated the BJP has modified as many as 38 sitting individuals, claiming that the majority replacements had been made with the consent of the incumbents.

    The birthday party named its applicants for 84 of the 89 seats which is able to pass to the polls within the first section on December 1 and 76 of 93 applicants going to the polls in the second one section on December 5.

    Union ministers Yadav and Mansukh Mandaviya had been joined by way of Gujarat BJP president C R Patil at a press convention right here as Yadav named the applicants decided on by way of the birthday party’s Central Election Committee at its assembly on Wednesday.

    Yadav stated the record comprises 69 sitting MLAs but even so 14 girls, and 13 and 24 individuals from the Schedules Castes and Schedules Tribes respectively.

    He stated quite a few senior leaders from the state, together with former leader minister Vijay Rupani and previous deputy leader minister Nitin Patel, have opted out of the competition and had written to the birthday party management to this impact.

    Patil expressed self assurance that the BJP will wreck its earlier report of seat tally and vote proportion in those polls.

    High Minister Narendra Modi and different CEC individuals, together with Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh but even so birthday party’s nationwide president J P Nadda, had been within the assembly to finalise the applicants.

    The BJP is hopeful of keeping up its uninterrupted successful streak within the state meeting polls since 1995.

    The access of the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration has added an additional size to the state’s conventional bipolar elections, with the BJP’s primary challenger Congress hit by way of a contemporary spherical of desertion by way of its leaders as it really works to regroup.

    NEW DELHI: The BJP on Thursday launched its first record of 160 applicants for the two-phase elections to the 182-member Gujarat Meeting, fielding Leader Minister Bhupendra Patel from his constituency Ghatlodia and losing a lot of sitting MLAs.

    Names of Hardik Patel, the face of Patidar agitation within the 2017 meeting polls who later hand over the Congress to enroll in the BJP, and Rivaba Jadeja, spouse of cricketer Ravindra Jadeja, determine at the record.

    Whilst Hardik Patel will contest from Viramgam, Rivaba Jadeja has been fielded from Jamnagar North.

    Freeing the record, Union minister Bhupendra Yadav stated the BJP has modified as many as 38 sitting individuals, claiming that the majority replacements had been made with the consent of the incumbents.

    The birthday party named its applicants for 84 of the 89 seats which is able to pass to the polls within the first section on December 1 and 76 of 93 applicants going to the polls in the second one section on December 5.

    Union ministers Yadav and Mansukh Mandaviya had been joined by way of Gujarat BJP president C R Patil at a press convention right here as Yadav named the applicants decided on by way of the birthday party’s Central Election Committee at its assembly on Wednesday.

    Yadav stated the record comprises 69 sitting MLAs but even so 14 girls, and 13 and 24 individuals from the Schedules Castes and Schedules Tribes respectively.

    He stated quite a few senior leaders from the state, together with former leader minister Vijay Rupani and previous deputy leader minister Nitin Patel, have opted out of the competition and had written to the birthday party management to this impact.

    Patil expressed self assurance that the BJP will wreck its earlier report of seat tally and vote proportion in those polls.

    High Minister Narendra Modi and different CEC individuals, together with Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh but even so birthday party’s nationwide president J P Nadda, had been within the assembly to finalise the applicants.

    The BJP is hopeful of keeping up its uninterrupted successful streak within the state meeting polls since 1995.

    The access of the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration has added an additional size to the state’s conventional bipolar elections, with the BJP’s primary challenger Congress hit by way of a contemporary spherical of desertion by way of its leaders as it really works to regroup.

  • I can paintings as Narendra Modi’s soldier, tweets Hardik Patel forward of becoming a member of BJP 

    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.

  • No choice but on becoming a member of BJP or AAP: Hardik Patel

    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.

  • Disgruntled Hardik will get AAP invite to the birthday celebration

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    AHMEDABAD:  After Gujarat Congress operating president Hardik Patel’s outburst in opposition to his birthday celebration, the Aam Aadmi Celebration has given him an open be offering to enroll in its fold. AAP’s Gujarat unit leader Gopal Italia advised Patel to not “waste” his time within the grand outdated birthday celebration. 

    “There’s no position for devoted other folks like him (in Congress). He must sign up for a like-minded birthday celebration like AAP,” Italia stated. “Hardik Patel has arise as a pace-setter on his personal. He has expressed displeasure with the Congress management. We require leaders like him.” 

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    He must no longer waste his time hanging his case sooner than the Congress management as it could no longer yield any effects, Italia added. The AAP, with a view to extend its footprints in Gujarat forward of the Meeting elections in December, has been aggressively wooing leaders from each Congress and BJP and Italia’s be offering to Hardik is a part of the transfer. 

    Hardik, on the other hand, has denied he had any plans of leaving the Congress. After lashing out on the Congress management for “sidelining” him, he stated there could be “small fights and blame video games” in a large birthday celebration, “however we need to paintings in combination to make Gujarat a greater position”.Whilst Hardik denied leaving Congress, AAP chief Nikhil Savani, one in every of his mates from the Patidar motion, hinted that he may “make a selection to seize the broom”. 

    The Congress has been dealing with hassle in Gujarat. Senior birthday celebration leaders and staff are increasingly more turning to BJP and AAP. On Thursday itself, two senior Congress leaders — Indranil Rajguru and Vashram Sagathia from the Saurashtra area — gave a large blow to the grand outdated birthday celebration through decamping to the AAP whilst former MLA from Gadhda reserved seat, Praveen Maru, has joined the BJP.
     

  • SC remains conviction of Congress chief Hardik Patel in rioting case

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Preferrred Courtroom on Tuesday stayed the conviction of Gujarat Congress running president Hardik Patel in a rioting and arson case.

    A bench of Justices S A Nazeer and Vikram Nath mentioned it is a are compatible case for the prime courtroom to have stayed the conviction.

    On the outset, senior recommend Maninder Singh submitted that no longer permitting Patel to contest election is a contravention of his proper to freedom of expression.

    “This is a violation. I’ve already misplaced one likelihood to contest the election in 2019. We’re sooner than your lordships to get our rights beneath Article 19(1)(a) to be enforced. They’ve misused the police energy. Subsequently, I do not know what they’ve to mention, however my lords will have to come to a decision this example quickly,” he mentioned.

    Solicitor Normal Tushar Mehta mentioned the fundamental parameters for conviction are set.

    “In legal legislation, there is not any one same old guiding principle to mention which one is correct. Your lordship would possibly come to a decision the problem. Whether or not Patel would possibly have received or no longer, isn’t the problem on this case,” he mentioned.

    The bench then handed the order and mentioned,”Having regard to the information and cases, we’re of the view that that is the are compatible case for the prime courtroom to have stayed the conviction. The conviction is, hereby, stayed till the appeals are determined accordingly.”

    The highest courtroom was once listening to a plea filed by means of Patel towards the judgment of the Gujarat Top Courtroom looking for suspension of the conviction in order that he may just contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

    Patel had sought a path to droop the conviction order handed on July 25, 2018, by means of a classes courtroom in Mahesana in Visnagar.

    He had additionally challenged the validity of the prime courtroom’s order of March 29 refusing his plea for a keep at the conviction.

  • Hardik Patel & Kanhaiya Kumar: Hardik Patel IN, Kanhaiya Kumar OUT within the record of Congress megastar campaigners

    Abhay Singh Rathore, Lucknow: Whilst the entire political events are saying the applicants step-by-step in regards to the Uttar Pradesh 2022 meeting elections, Congress is liberating the record of megastar campaigners together with the announcement of the applicants. Is. For the 59 meeting seats of the 3rd section, Congress has integrated 30 leaders together with Rahul-Priyanka within the record of megastar campaigners. On the similar time, Kanhaiya Kumar has no longer were given a spot on this record.

    30 leaders together with Rahul-Priyanka megastar campaigners
    Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Common Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were integrated within the record of megastar campaigners for the 3rd section. On the similar time, UP Congress President Ajay Kumar Lallu, girls chief Aradhana Mishra ‘Mona’, senior chief Ghulam Nabi Azad have additionally been given the accountability of megastar campaigner. On the similar time, Rajasthan Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot, Chhattisgarh Leader Minister Bhupesh Baghel and previous Madhya Pradesh Leader Minister Kamal Nath may also be noticed looking for votes for Congress applicants in UP.

    Hardik Patel changed, Kanhaiya Kumar’s title lower
    On this record, senior leaders Salman Khurshid, Pramod Tiwari, PL Punia, Rajiv Shukla, Sachin Pilot, Deepender Singh Hooda and Mohammad Azharuddin have additionally discovered a spot within the record of megastar campaigners. Congress leaders Naseemuddin Siddiqui, Acharya Pramod Krishnam, Pradeep Jain, Aditya, Ranjit Singh, the place they are going to be noticed campaigning in enhance of Congress applicants. On the similar time, flamboyant Congress leaders Hardik Patel, Imran Pratapgarhi, Varsha Gaikwad, Supriya Shrinet may also cross some of the public to make Congress applicants win. Congress has additionally made Harendra Agarwal, Rohit Chaudhary, Satyanarayan Patel, Tauqeer Alam, Pradeep Narwar, Vikas Awasthi, Mukesh Chauhan as megastar campaigners.

    3rd section polling on February 20
    Meeting elections in UP are to be held in 7 stages. Within the 3rd section, balloting will probably be hung on February 20 for 59 meeting seats. On this section, polling will probably be held in 16 districts together with Mainpuri, Kasganj, Hathras, Firozabad, Etah, Farrukhabad, Kannauj, Etawah, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur Nagar, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Mahoba, Jhansi and Lalitpur. The primary section of polling will probably be hung on February 10, the second one section on February 14, the 3rd section on February 20, the fourth section on February 23, the 5th section on February 27, the 6th section on March 3 and the 7th section on March 7. Counting of votes will happen on March 10.