NEW DELHI:
Gujarat Patidar
leader
Hardik Patel on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gandhinagar.
Earlier on Thursday, he said that he is going to start a fresh chapter with the feelings of national interest, state interest, public interest and social interest. He had on Tuesday confirmed that he will BJP.
"I will work as a small soldier in the noble work of service to the nation under the leadership of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi," Hardik tweeted.
Hardik also said that he would launch a campaign to wean away Congress leaders in Gujarat.
Elections to the 182-member House of the Gujarat assembly are due by the end of this year.
On May 18, Hardik resigned from the grand old party and stated that Gujarat Congress leaders were least bothered to address real issues of the state but were more focussed on ensuring that the leaders who come from Delhi to Gujarat get "chicken sandwich" on time.
Hardik catapulted to the political centre stage in 2015 when he spearheaded the Patidar reservation agitation in Gujarat, building the campaign in the run-up to the 2017 state assembly elections.
Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Patel joined Congress in the presence of Rahul Gandhi. He, was then, appointed as the working president of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee in Gujarat in 2020. However, he accused Congress leadership of sidelining him while making important decisions and eventually quit the party in 2022.
While resigning from the grand old party, Hardik had said that Gujarat Congress leaders were least bothered to address real issues of the state but were more focussed on ensuring that the leaders who come from Delhi to Gujarat get "chicken sandwich" on time.
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