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Former Patidar Quota Protest Leader Joins AAP Ahead Of Gujarat Election
Former quota agitation leader Reshma Patel joined the Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday, a day after resigning from the Nationalist Congress Party apparently over the denial of a ticket.
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Hardik Patel Requests Supreme Court To Cancel Conviction To Contest Polls
Patidar leader Hardik Patel moved the Supreme Court today, challenging the Gujarat High Court order, which declined to stay his conviction so that he can contest the Lok Sabha elections, scheduled to start in ten days. A lower court at Mehsana in Gujarat had sentenced him to two years' imprisonment last July, for rioting and arson in 2015, during t...
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Crackdown On 2015 Quota Protests Was Like Jallianwala Bagh: Hardik Patel
The police lathicharge on the agitators demanding reservation for the Patidar community in Gujarat's Ahmedabad in August, 2015 was akin to the brutal British era "Jallianwala Bagh" episode, quota agitation leader Hardik Patel told a court in Ahmedabad today.
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Hardik Patel Begins Indefinite Fast For Patidar Quota
Patidar leader Hardik Patel began an indefinite fast today to press for reservation for his community, after the BJP government in Gujarat refused him permission to stage the protest at a public place.
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Tension In Surat After Arrest Of Hardik Patel's Aide In Sedition Case
Tension gripped Gujarat city with mobs setting ablaze a BRTS bus and vandalising a bus stand tonight, apparently in protest against the arrest of Patidar quota agitation leader Alpesh Kathiriya, a close aide of Hardik Patel, by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch in an old sedition case.
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Protesting Congress Lawmaker Threatens To Drown Himself In River, Held
A Gujarat Congress legislator, on his way to take 'jal samadhi' in Bhadar river in Rajkotdistrict, was today detained along with seven other MLAs ofhis party, Patidar leader Hardik Patel and others at Bhukhi village in the district, police said.
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Hardik Patel's Workers Attack Gujarat Congress Offices After Reported Pact
Members of the Hardik Patel-led PAAS or Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti attacked Congress offices in Surat, alleging that the two leaders of the movement had been included in the Congress candidates' list without their consent.
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'Quota Roadmap By Next Meeting Or Else...,' Hardik Patel Reminds Congress
Patidar campaigner Hardik Patel today delivered a public reminder to the Congress that the grace period to come clean on how the party would give Patidars reservation had a short expiry date, warning that his group would protest Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's visit to south Gujarat's Surat on Friday if the issue wasn't sorted out quickly.
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Congress Demands Court-Monitored Probe Into Bribery Allegations In Gujarat
The Congress today demanded a court-monitored probe into allegations by a Patidar leader from North Gujarat that he was paid Rs 1 crore to join the BJP. Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said Narendra Patel, who belongs to the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) led by Hardik Patel, had said that the BJP attempted "to purchase him for Rs 1 crore...
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2 Buses Torched In Surat After Police Detain Dozen Patidar Protesters
Two buses were torched by Patidar youth in Surat, Gujarat's diamond city, on Tuesday evening after police detained some youth allegedly trying to disrupt an event by the BJP's youth wing in the city. The incident took place in Patidar-dominated Varaccha locality of Surat.
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Hardik Patel Arrives In Udaipur, To Leave For Mandsaur Today
Patidar quota stir leader Hardik Patel arrived in Udaipur on Monday and said that he would leave for Mandsaur, the epicentre of the farmers' stir in Madhya Pradesh, with his supporters on Tuesday.
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Unmoved By Quota Offer, Patels In Gujarat To Begin 'Lollipop' Protest
Not impressed by the Gujarat government announcing 10 per cent reservation for economically weaker sections among the upper castes, including Patels, the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) spearheading the quota agitation is launching from Sunday a week-long Swarnim Lollipop Mahotsav protest across the state.
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Free Hardik Patel First, Then Talk: Protesting Patels To Government
With fresh violence over the demand for reservation for the Patidars, the Anandiben Patel government in Gujarat is making desperate efforts to find a solution. But, despite talks with some Patel groups, the government has made little headway because the main demand of the protestors is the release of their 23-year-old leader Hardik Patel, who has b...
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Gujarat Holds Talks With Patels, 'Not Invited' Claims Hardik's Group
The Gujarat government held talks with leaders of some Patel groups in Gandhinagar today, a day after members of the community clashed with the police in Mehsana during a protest demanding the release from jail of 23-year-old Hardik Patel, the face of their campaign for reservation. But Hardik Patel-led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) stayed a...
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Gujarat Civic Polls Counting Tomorrow, Crucial Test for BJP
The Gujarat civic polls voting tomorrow will be a crucial test for the ruling BJP led by chief minister Anandiben Patel who is confident of a victory despite the Patidar protests.
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Former Patidar Quota Protest Leader Joins AAP Ahead Of Gujarat Election
Former quota agitation leader Reshma Patel joined the Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday, a day after resigning from the Nationalist Congress Party apparently over the denial of a ticket.
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Hardik Patel Requests Supreme Court To Cancel Conviction To Contest Polls
Patidar leader Hardik Patel moved the Supreme Court today, challenging the Gujarat High Court order, which declined to stay his conviction so that he can contest the Lok Sabha elections, scheduled to start in ten days. A lower court at Mehsana in Gujarat had sentenced him to two years' imprisonment last July, for rioting and arson in 2015, during t...
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Crackdown On 2015 Quota Protests Was Like Jallianwala Bagh: Hardik Patel
The police lathicharge on the agitators demanding reservation for the Patidar community in Gujarat's Ahmedabad in August, 2015 was akin to the brutal British era "Jallianwala Bagh" episode, quota agitation leader Hardik Patel told a court in Ahmedabad today.
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Hardik Patel Begins Indefinite Fast For Patidar Quota
Patidar leader Hardik Patel began an indefinite fast today to press for reservation for his community, after the BJP government in Gujarat refused him permission to stage the protest at a public place.
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Tension In Surat After Arrest Of Hardik Patel's Aide In Sedition Case
Tension gripped Gujarat city with mobs setting ablaze a BRTS bus and vandalising a bus stand tonight, apparently in protest against the arrest of Patidar quota agitation leader Alpesh Kathiriya, a close aide of Hardik Patel, by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch in an old sedition case.
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Protesting Congress Lawmaker Threatens To Drown Himself In River, Held
A Gujarat Congress legislator, on his way to take 'jal samadhi' in Bhadar river in Rajkotdistrict, was today detained along with seven other MLAs ofhis party, Patidar leader Hardik Patel and others at Bhukhi village in the district, police said.
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Hardik Patel's Workers Attack Gujarat Congress Offices After Reported Pact
Members of the Hardik Patel-led PAAS or Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti attacked Congress offices in Surat, alleging that the two leaders of the movement had been included in the Congress candidates' list without their consent.
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'Quota Roadmap By Next Meeting Or Else...,' Hardik Patel Reminds Congress
Patidar campaigner Hardik Patel today delivered a public reminder to the Congress that the grace period to come clean on how the party would give Patidars reservation had a short expiry date, warning that his group would protest Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's visit to south Gujarat's Surat on Friday if the issue wasn't sorted out quickly.
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Congress Demands Court-Monitored Probe Into Bribery Allegations In Gujarat
The Congress today demanded a court-monitored probe into allegations by a Patidar leader from North Gujarat that he was paid Rs 1 crore to join the BJP. Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said Narendra Patel, who belongs to the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) led by Hardik Patel, had said that the BJP attempted "to purchase him for Rs 1 crore...
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2 Buses Torched In Surat After Police Detain Dozen Patidar Protesters
Two buses were torched by Patidar youth in Surat, Gujarat's diamond city, on Tuesday evening after police detained some youth allegedly trying to disrupt an event by the BJP's youth wing in the city. The incident took place in Patidar-dominated Varaccha locality of Surat.
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Hardik Patel Arrives In Udaipur, To Leave For Mandsaur Today
Patidar quota stir leader Hardik Patel arrived in Udaipur on Monday and said that he would leave for Mandsaur, the epicentre of the farmers' stir in Madhya Pradesh, with his supporters on Tuesday.
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Unmoved By Quota Offer, Patels In Gujarat To Begin 'Lollipop' Protest
Not impressed by the Gujarat government announcing 10 per cent reservation for economically weaker sections among the upper castes, including Patels, the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) spearheading the quota agitation is launching from Sunday a week-long Swarnim Lollipop Mahotsav protest across the state.
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Free Hardik Patel First, Then Talk: Protesting Patels To Government
With fresh violence over the demand for reservation for the Patidars, the Anandiben Patel government in Gujarat is making desperate efforts to find a solution. But, despite talks with some Patel groups, the government has made little headway because the main demand of the protestors is the release of their 23-year-old leader Hardik Patel, who has b...
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Gujarat Holds Talks With Patels, 'Not Invited' Claims Hardik's Group
The Gujarat government held talks with leaders of some Patel groups in Gandhinagar today, a day after members of the community clashed with the police in Mehsana during a protest demanding the release from jail of 23-year-old Hardik Patel, the face of their campaign for reservation. But Hardik Patel-led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) stayed a...
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Gujarat Civic Polls Counting Tomorrow, Crucial Test for BJP
The Gujarat civic polls voting tomorrow will be a crucial test for the ruling BJP led by chief minister Anandiben Patel who is confident of a victory despite the Patidar protests.
