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PATIDAR COMMUNITY POLITICS
High profile BJP leader visits top Patidar leaders as subtle electioneering for assembly polls start in GujaratGujarat BJP is actively engaging with key Patidar community leaders. Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi met Naresh Patel, Chairman of Kho...- Patidars back Parshottam Rupala after Kshatriyas seek his removalWhile Kalpesh Rank, Saurashtra president of Sardar Patel Group (SPG), an influential group of Patidar youths, expressed SPG's absolute supp...
- Lok Sabha polls: Rajput community's stir against Rupala won't ignite old rivalry with Patidars, say expertsRajput community protests against BJP's Rupala due to remarks, urging candidate replacement. Analysts predict limited election impact despi...
- Gujarat: After staying away from BJP in 2017, Patidars back ruling party to the hilt in 2022 pollsIn the Saurashtra region, the Congress had won Patidar-dominated seats of Morbi, Tankara, Dhoraji and Amreli, among others in 2017. However...
- Gujarat Elections 2022: 2017 polls saw Patidars drifting away from BJP. Their voting patterns will be crucial this timeEarlier, the Patidars were a vote bank of the Congress. They shifted their allegiance to BJP in the 1990s after the Congress focused on the...
- Gujarat polls: In three-cornered fight, Patidars hold key to power as their anger against BJP appears to be waningWhile political analysts believe that most Patidars will vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party this time, former quota stir leaders think tha...
- Guided by Prashant Kishor's snub, key Patidar leader Naresh Patel says no to politicsPatel, the chairman of Khodaldham Trust, which runs the Khodiar Mata Temple in Kagwad near Rajkot, enjoys a standing in the Leuva sub caste...
- Hardik Patel all set to join the BJP on ThursdayKnown for his fiery politics against the BJP and packed rallies that pushed the BJP to a difficult position in the 2017 polls, Patel's like...
- Congress' Gujarat conundrum in election yearWhile Gandhi's praise for Dalit leader Jignesh may reap political dividends for the party from Gujarat's Dalit community who constitute rou...
- PM Modi to virtually address Patidar Summit in Surat; ministers to attendHealth minister and an important Patidar face of the BJP, Mansukh Mandaviya, will attend the event that is being organised in Surat, a city...
- Gujarat's Patidar pitch heats up in the runup to electionsHardik Patel rose to prominence riding the Patidar agitation in 2015 which funnelled the anger of the community against the BJP in the 2017...
- Bhupendra Patel’s appointment is a message to other communities that only PM should matter to people of the stateHaving appointed Bhupendra Patel, a Patidar as the chief minister of Gujarat, the upcoming challenge for the BJP would be to build confiden...
- Pro-reservation patidars bring resident deities into protest pictureEarlier, a protest march was taken out on September 9 from Khodiar Mata Temple in Patan to the Umia Mata Temple in Unjha in northern Gujara...
- In Alpesh- Hardik's home turf, Patidar-Thakore conflict plays out, BJP seeks to make gainsThere are 55,000 Thakores, 45,000 Patidars, 20,000 Muslims, 20,000 Kolis, 18,000 Dalits and 12,000 Durbars, apart from communities in this ...
- In Patidar stir epicentre, reservation dominates the discourseMehsana is the political laboratory of Gujarat -- leaders such as Narendra Modi and Amit Shah come from here, and this is where the Patidar...
- Arvind Kejriwal's support mere political: Hardik PatelArvind Kejriwal had recently come out in support of Hardik and criticised the BJP government in Gujarat for charging him with sedition.
- Activism in Gujarat is another face of hooliganismThere seems to be a new trend emerging in Gujarat that has caught political parties in a bind: community groups maybe piggybacking .
- Anti-Modi protests politically motivated, say Patels in USThe group of Patels, said they believe that the agitation in India is politically motivated and these protests do not represent the voice o...
- Patidar community plans mass withdrawals from banksET had on September 1 reported the possibility of Patidars contesting elections or abstain from voting to hurt the prospects of the BJP.
- The Patel agitation may be aimed at demolishing caste-based quota systemsPatidars are not seeking reservation but demanding the abolition of reservation in education and jobs for the OBCs, SCs and STs.
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