More than 2.5 crore people were eligible to vote in Phase II of the Assembly elections in Gujarat. Under the second phase, voting was held for 93 seats in 14 districts, including Ahmedabad and Vadodara, across north and central regions on Monday. There were 833 candidates in the fray, including high-profile candidates such as Chief … Read more
Hardik Patel (second from right), the face of Patidar quota agitation and former working president of the Gujarat Congress was also considered a turncoat for this analysis, though he never contested in polls before | Photo Credit: PTI Ten per cent of candidates fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2022 Gujarat polls … Read more
Former Congress leader Hardik Patel denied speculation that he will join the BJP on Monday, and took to Twitter to attack the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over the killing of popular Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala. “I am not joining BJP tomorrow…will let you know if something like this happens,” Patel told PTI on Sunday. Patel, … Read more
After Hardik Patel‘s exit from the Congress, the opposition party is seeking to induct another weighty Patidar face in its fold. According to party functionaries, Khodaldham chief Naresh Patel’s entry into the Congress may now be a matter of days, as Patel has made up his mind. An influential industrialist from Saurashtra, he heads the … Read more
With his elbow room diminishing, Gujarat Congress working president Hardik Patel seems set to quit the party. He has removed his party affiliations from his social media biodata as a precursor. Patel gained prominence during Patidar agitation in 2015, and subsequently joined Congress and was appointed the youngest working president of the Gujarat unit of … Read more
The Congress is into war mode with the RSS on ideological front and has started a series of programmes to counter the RSS-BJP ideology and attract youth and children in the age group of 7 to 18 into its fold. The party believes that young talent can be potential party workers and leaders as the … Read more
AHMEDABAD: Soon after being appointed as working president of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee, Hardik Patel said on Saturday that he will fulfill the responsibility with “utmost sincerity”. He will work to win the confidence of the people and resolve problems, especially those of unemployed youths and farmers, he said. The Congress on Saturday announced … Read more