Patidar leader and former Congressman Hardik Patel has been given ticket from the Viramgam seat that the BJP lost in the last two assembly polls. Hardik Patel was born on 20 July 1993 and he worked in Gujarat as a social activist. He rose to prominence in July 2015, where he led the Patidar reservation agitation that sought Other Backward Class (OBC) status for the Patidar caste. He joined the Congress party in 2020. Patel served as the Working President of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee, the state unit of INC in Gujarat. He left INC in May 2022. Flipping from being a strident critic, he eventually joined the Bharatiya Janata party in June 2022.
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Gujarat Election 2022: Viramgam Assembly Constituency Gujarat Details, History, MLA, Population, Voting Dates & Election Results
Gujarat Elections 2022: The Centre in January 2019 implemented the 10 per cent reservation for EWS from the general category by amending the Constitution.
Gujarat election 2022: The poll battle for Hardik Patel in Viramgam constituency will not be easy as it is a stronghold of Congress and the grand old party won the last two assembly elections here.
Gujarat Elections 2022: The BJP on Thursday announced the candidates' list for the forthcoming Gujarat Assembly Elections 2022. Chief Minsiter Bhupendra Bhai Patel to contest the elections from Ghatlodiya constituency.
Calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi the pride of the world, Patel said that after joining the BJP he would do an event every 10 days to ask Congress leaders, including MLAs, to join the BJP.
Hardik Patel had quit the Congress on May 18. In his parting note, Patel accused the Congress leadership of having no vision for Gujarat where the party is out of power since 1995.
Hardik Patel had quit the Congress on May 18. In his parting note, Patel accused the Congress leadership of having no vision for Gujarat where the party is out of power since 1995.
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Ahead of Gujarat Assembly polls due later this year, Patel on Wednesday resigned from Congress, claiming top leaders were distracted by their mobile phones and that Gujarat Congress leaders were more interested in arranging chicken sandwiches for them.
Hardik Patel, who had joined the Congress three years ago, on Wednesday resigned from the party, accusing its top leadership of behaving as if they hated Gujarat and Gujaratis.
With Hardik's resignation just months before Assembly election for 182-seat Gujarat Assembly, the Congress finds itself in doldrums yet again.
Hardik Patel had joined the Congress in 2019. He was appointed as the working president of the GPCC in July 2020.
Hardik Patel had led the Patidar agitation in Gujarat ahead of the 2017 Assembly polls. He joined Congress in 2019 and was appointed as the working president of the GPCC in July 2020.
Angered by the lack of preference given to him by state leadership, Hardik on Monday removed "Congress" from his Twitter bio and a picture of the party symbol from his profile picture.
Hardik Patel recently changed his WhatsApp profile picture from the Congress tricolour scarf to one with a saffron scarf. He even deleted Cogress from his WhatsApp bio.
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