{"id":310372,"date":"2019-03-12T12:53:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T12:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310372"},"modified":"2019-03-12T12:53:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T12:53:27","slug":"patidar-leader-hardik-patel-joins-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/patidar-leader-hardik-patel-joins-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Patidar leader Hardik Patel joins Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310373 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hardik-patel-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/hardik-patel-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/hardik-patel-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/hardik-patel-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/hardik-patel-696x428.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/hardik-patel-684x420.jpg 684w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/hardik-patel.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Tuesday joined the Congress in the presence of Rahul Gandhi during the party&#8217;s Working Committee meet in Ahmedabad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hardik shot to fame by leading a reservation stir in Gujarat.<\/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 last week indicated that he wants to contest the Lok Sabha election from Gujarat&#8217;s Jamnagar constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Jamnagar Lok Sabha seat is currently represented by BJP\u2019s Poonamben Maadam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 25-year-old leader had risen to prominence when he led an agitation by the Patidar community in 2015, demanding the reservation benefit for the community in government jobs and education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress is eyeing on Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Tuesday joined the Congress in the presence of Rahul Gandhi during the party&#8217;s Working Committee meet in Ahmedabad. Hardik shot to fame by leading a reservation stir in Gujarat. Patel had last week indicated that he wants to contest the Lok Sabha election from Gujarat&#8217;s Jamnagar constituency. The Jamnagar Lok [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2838,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[236,593,3852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310372"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310374,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310372\/revisions\/310374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}