Ahmedabad : Leaders of the Patel community on Sunday announced that they will organise public rallies in major districts of Gujarat to demand Other Backward Class (OBC) status and benefits of reservation under it in government jobs. “We will not cancel our rally in Vijapur (in Mehsana district) and it will be held on July 28 where at least 50,000 Patels will participate. On the same day another rally will be held in Mandal taluka of Ahmedabad district,” Hardik Patel, member of the Patidar Anamat Samiti said.
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Giving an ultimatum to Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, he said, “The Patel community remained deprived of its rights since four decades and neither the BJP nor the Congress improved our condition”.
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“Despite our representations to mamlatdars of various talukas, they (government) did not consider our demands,” Patel said. In other states including Uttar Pradesh, Patels get reservation as OBCs.
