BJP’s Loss Will be Victory for Patidars: Hardik Patel in Morbi

Taking potshots at PM Modi, Patel said that people should “open their eyes after two decades of BJP rule”.

Hardik Patel, convener of the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), brandishes a sword presented to him at a function organised by Gujjars to honour him in New Delhi. 

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The day Prime Minister Modi addressed an election meeting in Morbi town, Patidar agitation leader Hardik Patel took a roadshow and claimed that the BJP’s win will be a huge defeat for the Patidar community, reported Indian Express.

Taking potshots at PM Modi, Patel said that people should “open their eyes after two decades of BJP’s government”.

He has already started crying, but people now know they are crocodile tears. So he will do something new — he may do a huge roadshow in Ahmedabad, may collapse after becoming unconscious…. The BJP will pray…. You all will be swayed and elect them once more. But that victory will not be yours or mine.

“If the BJP loses, it will be our grand victory, and if it wins, we all will lose. Only time will tell what the Congress does, or does not. But if we can fight such goons, we can certainly fight the Congress too.”

During his roadshow in Morbi, as Patel criticised Modi and the BJP-MLA of the area, Kantilal Amrutiya. PAAS leader Manoj Panjara introduced Amrutiya’s main challenger, Congress’s Brijesh Merja, and encouraged people to vote for him.

Taunting Modi over the remark that he rushed to Morbi in 1979 after the Machhu-II dam disaster to help the affected, Hardik said, “Entire Gujarat was in Morbi at the time to help. I am happy he didn’t say there was a time he used to work in ceramic factory (here).”

Patel slammed the BJP for demonetisation and GST and stated that BJP workers were responsible for violence during Congress’s tenure.