New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Saturday approved a proposal to nominate Hardik Patel as the working president of the party’s Gujarat state unit.
Patel’s appointment as chief of Congress Pradesh Congress Committee comes with immediate effect.
Hardik Patel joined Congress in 2019
Patidar quota agitation leader Hardik Patel joined the Congress in March 2019, in the presence of Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
“People ask me why I chose the Congress and Rahul Gandhi. I chose Rahul Gandhi because he is honest. He does not believe in working like a dictator,” Hardik Patel said.
On BJP’s charge of dynastic politics in the Congress, Patel said there was nothing wrong if a politician’s son wanted to be join the same field to serve people.
Patel emerged as the leader of the agitation demanding reservation for the Patidar community in Gujarat in 2015.
The people from this community were considered to be bedrock supporters of the BJP.
