Hardik backs Scindia as Congress CM face

MANDSAUR (MP): Hardik Patel, who spearheaded the Patidar quota agitation in Gujarat, on Friday said Senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia should be projected as the Congress’ chief ministerial candidate for the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections slated for later this year.

“If the Congress projects Jyotiraditya Scindia as CM candidate, we will not oppose him, rather we will support him. I personally believe that Scindia should be promoted,” Patel said in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh.

“The BJP is ruling the state for the last 15 years. It can be replaced only when awareness among people is raised. We oppose those who make promises but do not fulfil them,” he said.

Asked about the attempts made by certain “vested interests” to stall his tour to the Mandsaur-neemuch region on Friday, he said “those doing so must remain ready to face us.”

Hardik added that there would be no need for protests if the government provided employment to two crore people and implemented the recommendations of the Swaminathan

If the Congress projects Jyotiraditya Scindia as (its) CM candidate, we will not oppose him, rather we will support him. I personally believe that Scindia should be promoted. HARDIK PATEL, Patidar leader

Commission for farmers.

He said that ruling parties should come up with a blue print of development instead of just making hollow claims.

Replying to a query on fake insecticides, fertilisers, seeds and organic manure and what he proposed to do about it, Patel said he was informed about it here and he would chalk out a strategy to curb it.