New Delhi: Former Congress leader Hardik Patel on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gandhinagar.
“With the feelings of national interest, state interest, public interest and social interest, I am going to start a new chapter from today. I will work as a small soldier in the noble work of service to the nation under the leadership of the successful Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi,” Hardik wrote in Hindi.
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राष्ट्रहित, प्रदेशहित, जनहित एवं समाज हित की भावनाओं के साथ आज से नए अध्याय का प्रारंभ करने जा रहा हूँ। भारत के यशस्वी प्रधानमंत्री श्री नरेन्द्र भाई मोदी जी के नेतृत्व में चल रहे राष्ट्र सेवा के भगीरथ कार्य में छोटा सा सिपाही बनकर काम करूँगा।
— Hardik Patel (@HardikPatel_) June 2, 2022
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Patel, 28, who led the Patidar quota agitation in 2015, had joined the Congress in 2019. He was made the Congress’ Gujarat unit working president in 2020.
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’.
