A three- hour-long meeting between Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel and leaders of the Patel community headed by 22-year-old Hardik Patel on the contentious quota issue ended inconclusively with the government seeking 10 days’ time to “deliberate and decide.”
“We took up issues relating to reservation benefits and police atrocities on members of the Patel community during the two-day violence, with the Chief Minister and other Ministers,” Mr. Hardik Patel said after the meeting.
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“The CM asked for 10 days’ time to decide on the issues we raised. We told them that our agitation will continue till the government decides,” he said. The meeting cannot be said to be a success or a failure, he added. But, government spokesperson and Health Minister Nitin Patel called it “satisfactory.”
“We asked the government to take stringent action against policemen who resorted to violence against members of the Patel community,” Mr. Hardik Patel told journalists in the State capital Gandhinagar.
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“We have decided to rename our ‘reverse Dandi Yatra’ as ‘Ekta Yatra’ and it will start from September 19. We will also organise public meetings in five cities of the State,” he said.
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