Interestingly, Hardik, who is the state Congress working president, expressed his grouse a day after he hinted at contesting elections after the Supreme Court stayed his conviction in a 2015 rioting and arson case.

Hardik Patel while maintaining that he is also a 'proud' Hindu, said that the BJP has a "leadership with terrific decision-making ability".

The Gujarat Congress working president even alleged that the leaders of his party's state unit were harassing him and want him to leave the party.

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.

Hardik Patel said that demands related to the 2015 agitation put forth by the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) have still not been fulfilled. And this has forced him and other Patidar leaders to revive the agitation.

"Such fake reports are being planted in the media with a malicious intent at the behest of the BJP," Hardik Patel said in a statement

Hardik Patel has been appointed the Working President of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee with immediate effect.

The Supreme Court on Friday granted relief of one week from arrest to Congress leader Hardik Patel in a 2015 Patidar agitation case.

Congress leader Hardik Patel's wife Kinjal here on Monday claimed her husband was untraceable since his release from jail on January 24. He was arrested on January 18

Arrest warrant against Hardik Patel in 2015 sedition case Ahmedabad, Feb 7 A trial court in Gujarat on Friday issued an arrest warrant against Congress leader

A court in Gujarat's Morbi district on Friday issued a non-bailable warrant against Congress leader Hardik Patel for skipping a hearing in a 2017 case where he is accused of holding a rally without police permission.

Congress leader Hardik Patel was arrested on Saturday night from Viramgam taluka in Gujarat's Ahmedabad district for failing to appear before a trial court here in a 2015 sedition case, hours after a warrant was issued against him

Sanjiv Bhatt, who was in June awarded life sentence in a custodial death case, is currently lodged at the Palanpur district jail. Hardik Patel, the Patidar quota agitation spearhead who joined the Congress earlier this year ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, was detained as soon as he and other party leaders entered Palanpur to go to the jail to meet Bhatt.

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Hardik Patel said he wanted a prime minster who could take care of the country and not a 'chowkidar' in a jib at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his 'main bhi chowkidar' rhetoric.

Gajjar had climbed up the stage, while the Congressman was addressing a gathering, and slapped him.

This is not the first time that a politician has been slapped, or punched.

Quota spearhead Hardik Patel recently joined the Congress party.

Hardik Patel had to later travel by road to Lunawada, around 100km from Ahmedabad, to address an election rally.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to accord urgent hearing to Congress leader Hardik Patel's plea seeking stay on his conviction in the 2015 rioting case.