Ahead of Modi's Gujarat visit, Hardik Patel and Patidar youths tonsure heads

May 21, 2017 12:59

On the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to his home state, Patidar quota stir leader Hardik Patel and 50 of his community youths tonsured their heads on Sunday to kick start Nyay Yatra.

The two-day Nyay Yatra began from Lathidal in Botad and will cover 51 villages before concluding in Bhavnagar on Monday.

"Nyay Yatra is for pressing our demands for justice against police atrocities on agitators in 2015 that left 13 youths dead," said Patel.

"We are starting yatra from Botad where the PM inaugurated an irrigation project during his previous Gujarat visit."

Patidars, a financially and politically influential community and BJP supporters for three decades, are up in arms against the state government seeking OBC status.

Modi will begin the Gujarat visit on Monday from Kutch district where he will inaugurate development projects at Kandla and dedicate Narmada Water pumping station at Bhachau.

On Tuesday, he will inaugurate the annual meeting of the African Development Bank at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar.

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