Amid the ongoing tension between the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) and the Congress over allocation of tickets for the Gujarat polls, Patel quota stir spearhead Hardik Patel t✨oday claimed his outfit never demanded any seats and said "the BJP and the Congress are the same".
Referring to the 2015 quota stir, Hardik said he would not forget the sꦿacrifice made by the Patidar "martyrs" for the sake of jus🧸t three-four tickets.
"Just remember one thing, we have to decimate those who have committed atrocities on us. I will not tell you who to vote for. Both the BJP and the Cong👍ress are the same. For them, the p🐬eople are of no value.
"Just use your wisdo🐽m while giving your vote and choose the one who ass▨ures you justice," Hardik told a huge gathering at Transad village in Dholka taluka.
His remarks days after the Congress initially💮 allotted two seats to PAAS members -- Amit Thummar and Lalit Vasoya -- as against 20 seats demanded by💦 the outfit.
The Congress later withdrew the candidature of Thummar from Junagadh and r🉐eplaced him with Bhikhabhai Joshi of the party, leaving only Vasoya (Dhroaj🦩i) in the fray from PAAS.
The "improper representation" to PAAS had prompte൲d protꦐests by its members.
Soon after the first list was released on S♚unday night, agitated PAAS members started protest💎 in many parts of the state.
In Surat, several P♈AAS members ransacked the Congress city unit'ꦺs office and indulged in sloganeering against the party.
"You must have seen on television how some people went on a rampage (on Sunday night when Congress issued its first list). I want to make it clear that I neither sought any ticket in the past nor I will seek in the future. We will not forget the martyrdom of our youths for the sꦰake of three-four tickets," Hardik said evoking cheers from the crowd.
This is for the first time in the last two days that Har🦂dik made any comments about the ongoing tussle between PAAS and the Congress over allocation of t𓃲ickets.
Asking people ꩲnot to believe everything which comes on tel🎀evision, he said the time has come to "decimate" the ruling BJP.
(PTI)
