After expressing his discontent with the Gujarat Congress in sharp phrases for “sidelining” him, disgruntled working president within the state Hardik Patel on Friday refuted reviews that he was planning to stop the Grand Old Party.
“There is a rumour that I am leaving Congress, I do not know who is spreading it,” Hardik Patel was quoted as saying by information company ANI.
“I have given my 100 per cent to Congress till now and will give the same in the coming days. We will do better development in Gujarat. There will be small fights and blame games within the party, but we have to work together to make Gujarat a better place,” he stated.
On Wednesday, Patel claimed that he was sidelined and lashed out at his celebration’s state unit over its “style of functioning”. “My position in the party is that of a newly married groom who has been made to undergo nasbandi (vasectomy),” he had stated.
He additionally questioned the Congress “delay” on taking a name on Khodaldham belief president and highly effective Patidar chief Naresh Patel, who’s being wooed by all events within the state, suggesting that it was an insult to your complete group.
Hardik, who’s the state Congress working president, expressed his grouse a day after he hinted at contesting elections after the Supreme Court stayed his conviction in a 2015 rioting and arson case. Hardik had spearheaded the Patidar group marketing campaign in Gujarat in 2015 searching for reservations beneath the OBC class.
While clarifying that he was not quitting the Congress, Patel stated he had complained to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi a number of instances in regards to the harassment however no motion has been taken.
Hardik Patel, who led an agitation of the highly effective “Patidar” group for quota in Gujarat in 2015, joined the Congress simply earlier than the 2019 nationwide election. However, he may garner the group’s help for the Congress within the Lok Sabha polls.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”