Hardik Patel joins BJP, says will be 'small soldier under PM Modi'

Source: PTI - Edited By: Utkarsh Mishra

Last updated on: June 02, 2022 13:25 IST

Patidar leader Hardik Patel joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday, days after quitting the Congress.

IMAGE: Posters welcoming Hardik Patel to the BJP were put outside the party office in Gandhinagar on Thursday. Photograph: ANI

He was welcomed in the party by BJP Gujarat unit president C R Patil and former deputy chief minister Nitin Patel.

'Today, I am going to start a new chapter keeping in mind the interests of the nation, region, society and community. I will work as a small soldier in the development work of the nation being carried out under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,' Hardik tweeted earlier on Thursday.

Hardik, 28, who led the Patidar quota agitation in 2015, joined the Congress in 2019.

He resigned from that party on May 18, after claiming in a letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi that the party 'only played to the role of a roadblock' over certain key issues in the country and was "merely reduced to opposing everything'.

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