Rajkot reverse swing to unite the Patidars
The Morning Standard|April 29, 2024
A seemingly innocuous statement by Union minister Parshottam Rupala praising the Dalit community snowballed into an affront against the Rajput communities with the latter demanding that he be dropped as the BJP candidate for the Rajkot Lok Sabha seat.
DILIP SINGH KSHATRIYA 

Multiple attempts to broker peace failed and the BJP refused to blink. Stir-

ring the pot by design or otherwise seems to have united the Patidars who have a historic animosity with the Rajputs.

Rupala had on March 22 lauded the Dalit community for not bowing down to the British when even "kings and royals" had started breaking bread with the Britishers. Since the rulers of the princely states during the British Raj were mostly Rajputs, they launched statewide protests against Rupala and gave a call to boycott him in the Rajkot polls. It had repercussions beyond the state as well.

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