Not joining AAP, BJP circulating such 'baseless reports' to hide its failure during COVID-19 crisis: Gujarat Congress leader Hardik Patel

BJP hit back at Patel and said that they fight elections on the agenda of development and that is why people elect them.

New Delhi: Gujarat Congress working president Hardik Patel on Monday (June 14, 2021) refuted the reports claiming that he is going to join the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is behind such 'baseless reports'. He said that the incumbent state government is circulating such 'false reports' to hide its failure during the COVID-19 crisis in Gujarat. "I am surprised at the reports coming in from various media quarters that I am going to join the AAP and become their face for the next year's Assembly election in Gujarat. Such claims are baseless. Such fake reports are being planted in the media with malicious intent at the behest of the BJP," Hardik Patel tweeted in Hindi.  "These are being circulated to create confusion among Congress supporters and the Patidar community. The BJP is circulating such baseless reports in order to hide its failure during the COVID-19 crisis in Gujarat," he added.