"Groom Forced Into Nasbandi": Congress's Hardik Patel Upset With Party
NDTV
Hardik Patel, who was inducted in the Congress by Rahul Gandhi just before the 2017 Gujarat election, exposed the internal turmoil in the opposition party as he accused the leadership of sidelining him.
Months before the Gujarat election, the Congress is a house divided with its working president in the state, Hardik Patel, furious and publicly lashing out against his bosses.
Hardik Patel, who was inducted in the Congress by Rahul Gandhi just before the 2017 Gujarat election, exposed the internal turmoil in the opposition party as he accused the leadership of sidelining him. He said he is not invited to any meeting of the state Congress unit and he is never consulted before decisions.
"My position in the party is that of a new groom who has been made to undergo nasbandi (vasectomy)," he was quoted as telling the Indian Express.
The powerful Patidar leader is also believed to be upset at the way the party has handled the induction of another leader of the community, Naresh Patel.
