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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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Topic: Hardik Patel

Hardik, Alpesh, Jignesh win — the road ahead for Gujarat’s ‘triumvirate’

While Thakor & Patel, once considered close to Rahul Gandhi, contested this Gujarat election on BJP tickets, Mevani, who had won in 2017 as an Independent, is now with Congress.

Hardik Patel, now in BJP, says Congress attacks Gujarati industrialists & Modi to appease Muslims

Ex-Congressman Patel also tells media to ask new party chief Kharge if Gandhi family still calls the shots & blames the Congress for relying on 'communal politics' in Bilkis Bano case.

Gujarat’s Jignesh, Hardik, Alpesh left Modi-Shah desperate in 2017. But 2022 is different

While Alpesh Thakor and Hardik Patel are members of the BJP, they can no longer join forces within the party. Jignesh Mevani is a lone ranger in Congress.

Only 2 options for Opposition, and why Akshay Kumar’s new movie could be the answer to inflation

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Will become a dictator, another Dyer’ — What BJP entrant Hardik Patel once said about Modi, Shah

The Patidar leader quit the Congress on 18 May, slamming the party for playing obstructionist politics, & joined the BJP Thursday.

Hardik Patel likely to join BJP, as party eyes Patidar, youth votes in Gujarat elections

According to a BJP functionary, Patel may also contest the Gujarat polls. The party also sees in him a potential contender against the appeal enjoyed by the Aam Aadmi Party among the youth.

How Karnataka’s textbook revisions may affect minds & Rahul gets singed by a ‘firebrand’ leader

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Our take on Gyanvapi Masjid case, Thomas Cup win and wheat export ban – in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

‘Shiva’s crown atop mosques’ & Hardik’s blink-and-miss Congress stint

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Speak the truth in Congress, and leaders will defame you,’ says Hardik Patel

The Gujarat patidar leader quit Congress on Wednesday, accusing seniors of lacking in seriousness.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.