Congress chief Hardik Patel, touted as ‘answer to Modi’ by impartial journalists, expresses anger in opposition to his get together after Gujarat rout

Long touted by ‘neutral journalists’ as an ‘answer to Modi’, Congress working president Hardik Patel is miffed with the Gujarat Congress unit for not utilizing him sufficient. Patel, who rose to prominence after spearheading the Patidar quota agitation in 2015, is sad with the Gujarat Congress leaders and has made no bones about it.
“I am not used to the best of my abilities. I am associated with Congress and connected with their ideology. So I am working to help the party win the elections. I came to Congress because of the ideology of the party. I want to see the party winning elections,” Patel mentioned.
Speaking in an interview with the Indian Express, Hardik said that the Congress’s state management didn’t organise a single public assembly for him forward of the native physique elections. Patel, who was campaigning for the second part of the native physique polls, mentioned he attended 27 public rallies, all on his personal and never organised by the Congress get together. Patel bemoaned that if Ahmed Patel have been alive, the Congress loyalist wouldn’t have let the BJP acquire 219 seats uncontested thus far.
Highlighting that Gujarat Congress has underutilised him, Hardik mentioned, “Many times I tell the party that when I joined the Congress, I thought Congress would utilise me. Even there, I feel that my Pradesh high command, the state party in-charge has failed. Organise my meetings, I am ready to do 25 meetings a day. You tell me from today you have to do a 500 km padayatra, assign me something, I tell the party, again and again, give me some work.”
“…Not a single one of my tours have been decided by the PCC (Pradesh Congress Committee). Still, I am on my toes because I want to strengthen the party, whether someone else does or not. They (Congress leaders) might be wanting to pull me down, push me and bring me down. Let them, I will stand up again,” Patel mentioned.
BJP retains all six municipal companies in Gujarat that went to polls on February 21
Patel’s lamentation comes after an embarrassing ballot drubbing that Congress obtained within the six Municipal company elections in Gujarat and forward of the second part of the polls during which seats for 81 municipalities, 31 district panchayats and 231 taluka panchayats will probably be up for grabs on February 28. The outcomes of the elections will probably be declared on March 2.
In the just lately concluded native physique polls, the ruling BJP retained energy in all of the six municipal companies within the state — Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar. The polls have been held on February 21. Congress had a disastrous ballot final result, with different political events akin to AAP making spectacular positive aspects at its expense.