Hardik stop Cong fearing jail in sedition instances, says social gathering chief; claims his resignation scripted by BJP

By PTI

AHMEDABAD: A day after Hardik Patel left the Congress, the social gathering’s Gujarat unit president Jagdish Thakor on Thursday claimed that he took the step as he was afraid that he may need to go to jail in sedition instances registered towards him.

Thakor additionally claimed that Patel would possibly be a part of the ruling BJP.

The Congress chief made these claims quickly after Patel held a press convention right here, wherein he alleged that he was not given any significant work regardless of being the working president of the social gathering’s state unit.

Patel additionally accused the social gathering of getting no imaginative and prescient and its state unit being an excessive amount of into “caste-based politics”.

Patel resigned from the Congress on Wednesday, months forward of the Assembly polls in Gujarat, claiming that prime leaders of the social gathering had been distracted by their cellphones and that Gujarat Congress leaders had been extra desirous about arranging hen sandwiches for them.

Patel was made the working president in July 2020, a 12 months after he was inducted into the Congress within the presence of Rahul Gandhi.

Talking to reporters in Rajkot, over 220 kms from right here, Thakor alleged that no matter Patel spoke in the course of the press convention earlier within the day and what was written in his resignation letter was scripted by the ruling BJP.

“Hardik feared that he may have to go to jail in sedition cases if he stays in Congress. Hence, to save himself from the possible punishment, he decided to quit Congress and he might join the BJP as well,” Thakor claimed.

Patel, who as soon as led the Patidar neighborhood’s agitation for reservation, faces almost 25 felony instances in Gujarat, together with sedition FIRs registered one every in Ahmedabad and Surat.

Refuting Patel’s allegations that he was sidelined and never given any vital work regardless of being a working president, Thakor stated the social gathering had made him a “star campaigner” within the recently-held Assembly polls to 5 states.

“Not just that. He was given the facility to travel in helicopters and planes. He was always given importance during the key national-level party meetings,” claimed Thakor, who accused him of being in contact with the BJP for a while.

“The way he was speaking (against leadership) for the last one month, we had an indication about his next move. We also knew that he was in touch with the BJP. But we were trying to resolve the issue amicably because we were confident that he will not surrender so easily just out of fear of going to jail,” he added.