{"id":302565,"date":"2018-09-12T12:03:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T12:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302565"},"modified":"2018-09-12T12:05:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T12:05:32","slug":"hardik-patel-ends-fast-unto-death-after-19-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/hardik-patel-ends-fast-unto-death-after-19-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardik Patel ends \u2018fast unto death\u2019 after 19 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/hardik-patel-ends-fast-unto-death-after-19-days\/hardik-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302566\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302566 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/hardik-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/hardik-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/hardik-372x420.jpg 372w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/hardik.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/a>Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Wednesday, ended his \u2018fast unto death\u2019 after persuasion by leaders of two Patidar socio-religious bodies \u2014 Khodaldham and Umiyadham.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Patel had been on fast for the past 19 days demanding\u00a0loan waiver for farmers and reservation for Patidar community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, none of the demands for which he was fasting were accepted by the Gujarat government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti\u2019s convener (PAAS) Manoj Panara said, \u201cHardik was determined to continue his fast. But, we requested him to break the fast and fight against this government. Hardik accepted our request and decided to break his fast through the hands of leaders of Khodaldham and Umiyadham at 3 pm.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On August 25, Hardik Patel began his fast unto death at his residence near Vaishnodevi Circle in Ahmedabad. Initially, he announced two of his demands, which were reservation for Patidar community and loan waiver for farmers. After a few days, he also added demand to release PAAS convener Alpesh Kathiriya, who is in jail since August 19 in connection with a sedition case registered against him by the Gujarat government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the reports, Hardik Patel and his associates are soon to hit the streets again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Wednesday, ended his \u2018fast unto death\u2019 after persuasion by leaders of two Patidar socio-religious bodies \u2014 Khodaldham and Umiyadham.\u00a0 Patel had been on fast for the past 19 days demanding\u00a0loan waiver for farmers and reservation for Patidar community. However, none of the demands for which he was fasting were accepted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2838,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[4956,593,3852,4958,4615,4957,4959],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302568,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302565\/revisions\/302568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}