With the Gujarat elections less than two months away, a Gujarat court has issued a non-bailable warrant against PAAS leader Hardik Patel for vandalizing a BJP MLA’s office in a case from 2016.
The warrant was issued by a sessions court in Visanagar, Mehsana.
The warrant comes barely hours after the Election commission announced the dates for the polls in Gujarat.
The news also comes at a time when TV channels ran CCTV footage of Patel’s meeting with Congress VP Rahul Gandhi. Patel later denied that any such meeting took place though he is seen as closer to the Congress.
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Amid speculation that the Patidar leader with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi in Ahmedabad, Patel, while addressing a late night rally on Monday, said he would not shy away from supporting "chor (thief)" Congress to defeat "mahachor (big thief)" for the upcoming Gujarat elections.
Congress had earlier invited the agitating leaders, who have been acting as a pressure group, to hold a meeting with party vice president Rahul Gandhi; hoping that Patel quota stir hero Hardik Patel, Dalit leader Jignesh Mewani and OBC leader Alpesh Thakor, might swing the poll battle in their favour.
Earlier, Hardik had turned down the Congress' invitation to fight the Gujarat Assembly election jointly, saying the polls were not a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Congress fight.
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With Agency Inputs
