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Wednesday, April 30, 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

Dhaka walls have Islamist Hizbut Tahrir posters. They are asking the military to take over

Hizbut Tahrir believes in a state where non-Muslims do not have voting rights but they can make “complaints in respect to unjust acts performed by the rulers or the misapplication of Islam upon them”.

Hints of thaw in US-China tariff war—as Trump says duties to ‘come down’, China open to talks

Trump has expressed optimism about reaching a tariff agreement ‘pretty quickly’, while Xi said that tariff & trade wars undermine the legitimate rights and interests of all countries.

Ultra & Alpine Quest—technologies that keep Pakistani terrorists, especially LeT, going in J&K

The first recovery of ‘Ultra’ sets happened in 2023 in the Jammu region and not Kashmir.

Pakistan ISI is killing Hindus for 45 years. To turn India into a nation at war with itself

At some point, Pakistan’s calculation has been, Hindus will rise in reprisal against their own minorities. That’s a crisis ISI has been conjuring up in India. A nation at war with itself.