Patidar Ekta Yatra kicks off amid efforts to resolve the vexed quota issue

Gandhinagar/Jamnagar

Amid the efforts to resolve the Patidar quota stir issue by the state government, a proposed 33 day long Patidar Ekta Yatra of the community demanding release of the jailed agitation leaders and reservation for the community today kicked off from Umiyadham in Sidsar in Jamjodhpur taluka of Jamnagar in Saurashtra.

The yatra which started from one of the most revered religious places of Kadva faction of the Patel community will cross through over 1400 villages of 56 talukas in 11 districts to reach Khodaldham in Kagvad, the all important religious place of Leuva faction of the community, on March 27.

On the beginning of the Yatra, dissident BJP MLA Nalin Kotadiya (who was elected on the ticket of Gujarat Parivartan Party) welcomed the ongoing efforts of the state government to resolve the quota issue but said that the demands of the agitation must be met.

Earlier. Porbander BJP MP Vitthal Radadiya, who had met, jailed Patidar leader Hardik Patel yesterday in Surat’s Lajpore jail at the behest of Chief Minister Mrs Anandiben patel today met her in Gandhinagar. He expressed hope that the issue will be resolved in a week’s time.

Meanwhile, Hardik Patel, told newsmen in Visnagar of Mahesana, where he was brought for production in a local court in connection with a stir related case today appealed his community to not to take any violent path on the lines of the Jat agitation. He also said that if the government take steps in the interest of his community then he was ready to co-operate.

– DeshGujarat