In the Saurashtra region, the Congress had won Patidar-dominated seats of Morbi, Tankara, Dhoraji and Amreli, among others in 2017. However...

Earlier, the Patidars were a vote bank of the Congress. They shifted their allegiance to BJP in the 1990s after the Congress focused on the...

While political analysts believe that most Patidars will vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party this time, former quota stir leaders think tha...

Patel, the chairman of Khodaldham Trust, which runs the Khodiar Mata Temple in Kagwad near Rajkot, enjoys a standing in the Leuva sub caste...

Known 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...

While Gandhi's praise for Dalit leader Jignesh may reap political dividends for the party from Gujarat's Dalit community who constitute rou...

Health minister and an important Patidar face of the BJP, Mansukh Mandaviya, will attend the event that is being organised in Surat, a city...

Hardik Patel rose to prominence riding the Patidar agitation in 2015 which funnelled the anger of the community against the BJP in the 2017...

Having appointed Bhupendra Patel, a Patidar as the chief minister of Gujarat, the upcoming challenge for the BJP would be to build confiden...

Earlier, 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...

There 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 ...

Mehsana 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 had recently come out in support of Hardik and criticised the BJP government in Gujarat for charging him with sedition.

There seems to be a new trend emerging in Gujarat that has caught political parties in a bind: community groups maybe piggybacking .

The group of Patels, said they believe that the agitation in India is politically motivated and these protests do not represent the voice o...

ET had on September 1 reported the possibility of Patidars contesting elections or abstain from voting to hurt the prospects of the BJP.

Patidars are not seeking reservation but demanding the abolition of reservation in education and jobs for the OBCs, SCs and STs.