Patidar chief Hardik Patel has mentioned that the Congress celebration needs to maintain the Patels, an influential group in Gujarat, at a distance as they don’t wish to take alongside the higher castes. “They don’t want to keep Hardik with them, nor do they want to take Naresh (Patel). They don’t want anyone from the general category,” Hardik mentioned, referring to the Congress in an interview with The Indian Express.
“They talk about the KHAM (Kshatriya, Harijan, Adivasi, Muslim) theory helping them form the government and thus keep fooling the Gandhi family. The question is why have they not formed a government after 1985?” Hardik added in response to a query on whether or not the excitement over the entry of Naresh Patel into Congress has prompted him unease.
Hardik additionally took on the Gandhi household for ignoring the Patidar group after he joined the Congress. “Even the Gandhi family… because of whatever happened with Sardar Patel, wants to keep Gujarat’s Patels at arm’s length… Vitthal Radadiya, why was he not made a Union minister? Because he was a strong Patidar. Dinsha Patel was never made a Cabinet minister, only Minister of State, he had a big role in keeping the identity of Sardar Patel alive,” The Indian Express quoted Patel as saying.
Hardik additionally nearly dominated out the potential of Naresh Patel, a Leuva Patidar who heads the Shree Khodaldham Temple Trust, becoming a member of the Congress. “There is no clarity. When I met Nareshbhai first, I told him, I don’t think the Congress will help us in our matters. The Congress has nothing to do with people. They are only concerned about those 60-65 seats by which they can ensure one-two Rajya Sabha seats. Forming the government is a far cry,” Hardik mentioned.
Having joined the Congress in 2019 and appointed working president of the state unit in 2020, Hardik Patel resigned from the celebration on May 18. In his resignation letter addressed to celebration president Sonia Gandhi, Hardik mentioned the celebration’s prime leaders appeared extra serious about “messages they had received on their mobile (phones)” — and behaved as if “they hate Gujarat and Gujaratis” whereas state leaders have been “more focussed” in arranging hen sandwiches for them.
Asked about his future plan of action after quitting the Congress, Hardik mentioned that his choices have been open. Having come out in reward of the BJP earlier, Hardik mentioned that the Aam Aadmi Party seems higher suited to tackle the BJP in the long term than the Congress. Predicting a one-sided end result within the Gujarat elections slated for later this yr, Hardik mentioned that he noticed AAP’s technique higher than the Congress.
“AAP’s aggression shows because its national leaders are constantly travelling and they are more in the media limelight even for the smallest things. They are in the whole of Gujarat. In the case of the Congress, all their leaders go to one place – Saurashtra, Surat, Vadodara (where the recent regional Chintan Shivirs for Gujarat were held)… Their (AAP) strategy is definitely better than the Congress’s. That’s what I was tired of telling the Congress,” he mentioned.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”