Modi's Gujarat model has failed the poor: Hardik Patel
August 31, 2015  08:42
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Hardik Patel, the 22-year-old Patel leader under whose leadership the Patel community in Gujarat pushed the state to the brink last week, feels that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's much talked about Gujarat model has failed to work for the poor.

In an interview with India Today, he said: ""Those were rich became richer and poor became poorer. I haven't seen any Gujarat model, I have come from village. I didn't see any development in my village. I don't even remember who I voted for."

While stating that leaders like Sardar Patel and Bal Thackeray have been his idol, the Patel leader said," I like it when people call me Sardar Hardik. I want to be the modern Patel. Not a pretender." Taking a dig at Prime Minister Modi's ambitious Statue of Unity project which includes erecting a 182-metre high statue of Sardar Patel, Hardik said, " I want to be the real thing. Not a statue."

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