Hardik Patel & supporters detained on way to Mandsaur

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel and his supporters were detained on Tuesday morning in Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch district while on their way to Mandsaur, the epicenter of last week’s violent farmers’ agitation. They were released outside the state’s border.

Hardik, who had spent six months in exile in Udaipur after a Gujarat High Court order, had returned to his hometown in January this year. He was staying at a former Congress MLA’s house during this period. He was released from jail in Gujarat after nine months in confinement in July last year.

Patel had announced his decision to visit Mandsaur with his supporters on Monday. “I will do my work and police and administration will do their job,” he had told reporters.Patel has grown into an influential Patidar leader after he led a mass agitation seeking reservation for Patidars in Gujarat in 2015. And since then he’s constantly built upon the anti-BJP sentiment among Patels or Patidars as they’re known in central and north-west part of the country.