Gandhinagar

Gujarat health minister Nitin Patel, who leads the seven ministers committee formed a few days ago to hold talks with the representatives of politically dominant Patels and other communities with regard to their demands of reservation, today said that to expect a big result in the first meeting was not practical.

Amid the claims of the Sardar Patel Group (which represented the Patels in the first round of talks today) that the talks have completely failed, Mr. Patel said that it was not correct to expect a big result in the first meeting itself.

‘Keeping in view the constitutional, legal and other obligations including the effect over the coming generations, the state government would take appropriate step at an appropriate time,’ Mr. Patel said soon after the first round talks with the representatives of Patels and Brahmins who were demanding reservation on economic ground,

Mr. Patel said he was ready to hold a second round of talks with the Patels. He claimed that the government was talking several steps for the employment and higher educational benefits of the community.

Earlier the spokesperson of the Sardar Patel Group Mr. P C Patel had claimed that the talks have failed as the government was trying to lure them with other things while they were not ready for anything less than OBC quota for them.

On the other hand the convener of Patidar Anamat Aandolan (Patel Reservation Movement), the umbrella organisation of all the pro- reservation rallies for politically strong Patel community in Gujarat, Mr. Hardik Patel had demanded that the state government should form another committee Patel including the labour, finance and law ministers under the chairmanship of chief minister Mrs. Anandiben Patel to hold talks with the community representatives on the issue. He was addressing a press conference in Surat after participating in a huge rally in Surat. He was reportedly not invited for talks by the ministers group.

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