Modi, the successful PM of India, says Hardik Patel

Hours after joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former Gujarat Congress leader Hardik Patel on Thursday called Narendra Modi the successful Prime Minister of India. Patel said he will also work on the campaign to make India a global guru. “I joined the BJP today in the presence of the hardworking president of the party's Gujarat unit CR Paatil Ji, former deputy chief minister Nitinbhai Patel and thousands of people and with the blessings of saints,” Patel tweeted. I am going to start a new chapter keeping in mind the interest of the nation, region, society and community. I will work as a small soldier in the development work of the nation being carried out under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said.

Once a vocal critic of the BJP and Modi, Patel, the face of the 2015 Patidar quota agitation in Gujarat, had joined the Congress in 2019 ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Patel had served as the working president of the Congress's state unit. He resigned from the grand old party on May 18 this year. In a scathing letter to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, Patel said the Congress "only played to the role of a roadblock" over certain key issues in the country and was "merely reduced to opposing everything".  Patel also said he would launch a campaign to wean away Congress leaders in the state.