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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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University Student Leaders To March In Delhi Demanding Jobs, More Funds
Student leaders and union members from different universities will take part in a march from the Red Fort to Parliament Street in Delhi today to demand educational and employment opportunities from the government.
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Court Frames Charges Against Hardik Patel, Two Aides In Sedition Case
Hardik Patel and his two colleagues have been charged with sedition in a case related to a protest they had organised three years ago demanding reservation for Patel community allegedly turning violent.
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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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Activist Who Led Protests In Gujarat Is Congress' Big Catch Before Polls
Gujarat's backward activist leader Alpesh Thakor decided to join the Congress on Saturday, hours after the Congress sent him and two other youth leaders, Hardik Patel andJignesh Mevani,a very public, and open-ended invite to join them and fight the Gujarat assembly elections expected in early December.
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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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After Rahul Gandhi, Jyotiraditya Scindia In Face-Off With Cops: 10 Facts
Senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia was stopped on his way to violence-hit Mandsaur today. The Congress leader has said he will sit on dharna at Dhodhar - nearly 675 km from Mandsaur -- till peace is restored. Earlier today, Hardik Patel, the man leading the Patidar agitation for reservation in government jobs and education, got arrested w...
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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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Hardik Patel's Supporters Detained For Creating Ruckus
The police in Rajkot district on Tuesday detained around 15 members of Hardik Patel-led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) for allegedly attacking people who protested against the quota leader during his visit.
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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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University Student Leaders To March In Delhi Demanding Jobs, More Funds
Student leaders and union members from different universities will take part in a march from the Red Fort to Parliament Street in Delhi today to demand educational and employment opportunities from the government.
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Court Frames Charges Against Hardik Patel, Two Aides In Sedition Case
Hardik Patel and his two colleagues have been charged with sedition in a case related to a protest they had organised three years ago demanding reservation for Patel community allegedly turning violent.
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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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Activist Who Led Protests In Gujarat Is Congress' Big Catch Before Polls
Gujarat's backward activist leader Alpesh Thakor decided to join the Congress on Saturday, hours after the Congress sent him and two other youth leaders, Hardik Patel andJignesh Mevani,a very public, and open-ended invite to join them and fight the Gujarat assembly elections expected in early December.
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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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After Rahul Gandhi, Jyotiraditya Scindia In Face-Off With Cops: 10 Facts
Senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia was stopped on his way to violence-hit Mandsaur today. The Congress leader has said he will sit on dharna at Dhodhar - nearly 675 km from Mandsaur -- till peace is restored. Earlier today, Hardik Patel, the man leading the Patidar agitation for reservation in government jobs and education, got arrested w...
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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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Hardik Patel's Supporters Detained For Creating Ruckus
The police in Rajkot district on Tuesday detained around 15 members of Hardik Patel-led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) for allegedly attacking people who protested against the quota leader during his visit.
