Ahmedabad: Patidar leader Hardik Patel today
declared his support for the Congress in the Gujarat elections
next month and said the opposition party had accepted its
demand for reservation for the Patel community.
The Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader said the
Congress will include the extension of reservation benefit to
Patidars in its election manifesto.
"The Congress has agreed to provide reservation to the
Patidar community," Patel told reporters here.
The Congress, which has mounted a hectic campaign to
dislodge the long-ruling BJP in the home state of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and saffron party chief Amit Shah, has
been wooing the Patel stir spearhead for quite some time.
Elections in Gujarat will be held on December 9 and 14.
