Hardik Patel Quit Party As He Fears Jail, Congress Alleges
NDTV
Hradik Patel-Congress Row: Hardik Patel resigned from the Congress on Wednesday, months ahead of the Assembly polls in Gujarat.
A day after Hardik Patel left the Congress, the party's Gujarat unit president Jagdish Thakor on Thursday claimed that he took the step as he was afraid that he might have to go to jail in sedition cases registered against him.
Thakor also claimed that Patel might join the ruling BJP.
The Congress leader made these claims soon after Patel held a press conference here, in which he alleged that he was not given any meaningful work despite being the working president of the party's state unit. Patel also accused the party of having no vision and its state unit being too much into "caste-based politics".
Patel resigned from the Congress on Wednesday, months ahead of the Assembly polls in Gujarat, claiming that top leaders of the party were distracted by their mobile phones and that Gujarat Congress leaders were more interested in arranging chicken sandwiches for them. Patel was made the working president in July 2020, a year after he was inducted into the Congress in the presence of Rahul Gandhi.
