Gujarat polls: Hardik Patel sets November 3 deadline for Congress on quota
Mr Shah had faced a strong opposition from the workers of the Hardik-led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti during his visit to Surat.
Ahmedabad: Patidar quota agitation leader Hardik Patel, who has put forward a set of demands before the Congress as a precondition for extending support to the party in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls, on Saturday asked it to make its stand clear by November 3 on how it would ensure reservation for the community.
In a tweet, he also threatened that the Patidar community would oppose Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi during his visit to Surat on November 3, like it did to BJP president Amit Shah during one of his public gatherings in the city.
“3/11/2017 tak Congress Patidar ko Samvedhanik aarakshan kaise dengi, us mudde par apna stand clear kar de nahi to Amit Shah jaisa mamla Surat mein hoga (Congress should make its stand clear by November 3 on how it will provide reservation to the Patidar community under the Constitution, otherwise the Amit Shah episode will be repeated in Surat),” he tweeted.
In September last year, Mr Shah had faced a strong opposition from the workers of the Hardik-led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti during his visit to Surat.
Dinesh Bambhaniya, a PAAS convener, said the organisation and the community it represented would take a call on whether to support the Congress in the Assembly polls only after the opposition party made its stand clear on the issue.