Hardik Patel stopped from meeting Gujarat MoS for home
September 11, 2015  20:14
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Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel and his supporters were today stopped by police from meeting Gujarat Minister of State for Home Rajni Patel at a function in Mehsana today.

Hardik, who heads the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti, has started a campaign where a rose is offered to Patel MLAs and they are asked whether they back the community's demand of inclusion in the OBC category.

Rajni Patel was today scheduled to attend a program at the Sarvajanik School here where allotment letters were to be distributed to the talathis (village revenue officers). Hardik had announced that he would be meeting the minister at the event and give him a rose.

Hardik and his supporters reached the venue moments after the programme started around 4 pm. However, the police, deployed in a large number, stopped them at the entrance and forced them to leave without meeting the minister.

"There were no detentions or arrests," said the Mehsana Superintendent of Police, J R Mothalia, adding that Hardik "didn't create any trouble". The programme passed off peacefully.

More than two thousand women from the Patel community had also gathered outside to protest against the minister for the alleged police atrocities during the Patels' agitation last month. However, they too were disappointed as the minister used another gate to enter and leave.
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