Hardik Patel left the Congress not with a bang, but with a whimper. With speculations over his departure from the party going on for weeks, the question about his leaving was more of ‘when’ than ‘why’.
On Wednesday, Hardik finally sent his resignation letter to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi. Hardik is expected to join the ruling dispensation and contest the forthcoming assembly elections in Gujarat unless there is some major last-minute glitch. Sources close to Hardik and the BJP told ET that it is just a matter of days before he dons the saffron cap.
Just as Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had levelled charges against the Congress high command, Hardik attacked the Congress leadership by stating, “The seriousness of the top leadership to any issue is a major concern. Whenever I met with the top leadership of the party, I felt that the attention of the leader is more on mobile phones and other things than on listening to the issues of Gujarat’s people and the problems of the party.”
Almost echoing the charges that the BJP has been levelling against Rahul Gandhi, Hardik wrote: “Whenever the country was in trouble or the Congress needed its leadership the most, our leader was abroad. The behaviour of the top leadership is such that they have a hatred towards Gujarat and Gujaratis. How can they then expect the people of Gujarat to see them as an alternative?”
“Every time I have gone to the youth, everyone said the same thing “why are you with a party that has only insulted Gujaratis may it be in the field of industry, religious or political?” he added.
Hardik fired a salvo on the Congress stating that “may it be the temple of Lord Ram in Ayodhya, CAA-NRC issue, removing Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir or implementing GST, the country was waiting for them for a long time and the Congress party worked only as an impediment for them.”
Hardik has been restive for a long time and has been attacking the state leadership as well. He had refrained from attending the three-day Chintan Shivir in Udaipur. However, the Congress had decided not to act against Hardik to deprive him of the opportunity to play the “Patidar victim card” and gain mileage out of any disciplinary action. However, the senior leaders of the state did make their displeasure regarding Hardik’s frequent statements known in public.
It was this strategy which left him in a limbo and forced Hardik to resign from the party without drawing much benefit from the optics he expected to gain from the noise he created.
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