TIL Desk/National/Ahmedabad/ Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti convener Hardik Patel on Wednesday claimed that the Congress party has agreed to give reservation to the Patidar community, if the party comes to power in Gujarat.
Patel, while addressing the media in Ahmedabad, said the party will introduce a bill in the Gujarat assembly for the reservation, if they win the forthcoming. “Congress has accepted our issues. Congress has agreed to give Patidars reservations under Section 31, and provisions of Section 46,” he said.
“Draft has been prepared between us and the Congress. Formula is not restricted to Patidar community alone,” he added. On question of extending support to the Congress in the assembly elections, he said, “We are not openly extending support to the Congress, but we will fight the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party). So directly or indirectly, there will be support to Congress.”
Further clearing the air on the ticket distribution, the Patidar leader said, they have never asked for any ticket from the Congress party to contest the assembly polls and there is ‘no conflict within the PAAS’ regarding the same.
