The Nav Sankalp Shivir focused on youth. So, it is ironic that Hardik Patel, who was the Congress’s working president in poll-bound Gujarat resigned just two days after it. At 28, he was the youngest working president the party had in any state. Patel had been sulking over the past few months because of “differences” with the state leadership. He had skipped the Congress meet saying that his schedule had been planned in advance.
The face of the 2015 Patidar agitation, Patel helped the Congress in 2017 as it won a respectable 77 seats in the assembly. He formally joined the party ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in the presence of then-party president Rahul Gandhi. And he was given the second-highest post in the Gujarat Congress, after president Jagdish Thakor, despite having been with the party for only about three years.
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