Gujarat CM seeks time to sort out Patel quota issue

Hardik Patel makes it clear that agitation will continue until clarity emerges.

September 15, 2015 03:05 am | Updated November 17, 2021 02:12 am IST - Ahmedabad:

Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel.

Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel.

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.

“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.

PTI reports:

“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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