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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicHardik Patel

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

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.