Gandhinagar

The head of the seven ministers committee of the Gujarat government constituted for the resolution of the Patidar quota stir, Health Minister Nitin Patel today said the ‘Congress backed elements’ were trying to keep the issue alive ‘anyhow’ till the assembly polls next year with a hope to gain political mileage from it.

Mr. Patel, who is also the spokesperson of the government, today said that the government was making all efforts to end the vexed issue.

‘But the opposition Congress and the elements associated with the stir which are backed by the party for selfish motives, don’t want the agitation to end till 2017 Gujarat assembly polls,’ he said.

To a query Mr. Patel, said that it was not correct to say that there was a stalemate like situation with regard to the resolution of the issue. ‘We are moving ahead and there were many points on which consensus is very much there,’ the minister said adding it should not be hurriedly concluded that no progress has been made or the solution was not possible.

Notably, the state government has taken note of the fact that some of the so called Congress backed PAAS leaders including Atul Patel, whose wife contested last local body polls in Ahmedabad on Congress ticket (she lost to BJP candidate), are working tooth and nail to foil any attempt to resolve the Patidar stir issue.

– DeshGujarat