Not to vote for BJP: Hardik Patel tells Patidar

TIL Desk/National/Ahmedabad/ Patidar quota leader Hardik Patel has exhorted Patidars not to vote for the BJP even if they fielded his father in the upcoming Assembly elections in the state. In a stinging attack on the ruling party.

He was addressing Patidars at Ajab village in Keshod taluka of Junagadh district on the second day of his three-day Sankalp Yatra, which began from Ahmedabad.

“The election is around the corner. They (BJP) will give you many lollipops. Some will even come to buy you. But don’t vote even for my father, Bharat Patel, if he fights election from Keshod as a BJP candidate,” the convener of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) said to a rousing applause.

Hardik, who has been spearheading the agitation seeking reservation for the community for the past two years, said: “It is our duty to liberate our community which has been enslaved for the last 25 years.

The post-Godhra riots of 2002 were between Hindus and Muslims. But as a matter of fact, 140 Patidars are serving life imprisonment even today… They (BJP) have only exploited our votes and notes (money) and gave nothing in return.”