Gandhinagar: Hardik Patel along with 21 people met Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel at her residence in Ahmedabad on Monday to discuss poliuce atrocities on the proitestors.
Hardik, as Convenor of Patel Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), is leading the stir for OBC status for the community.
"We have decided that we will go for meeting with the Chief Minister only if she agrees to meet all the 144 of our representatives who have come from different parts of the State," he had told reporters.
The talks are considered crucial as on Sunday, the state government and Patel community members agreed to sit across the table to discuss the issue for the first time. "We have sent 14 of our representatives to request the Chief Minister to come out of her official bungalow and meet all our members in her garden.
"If the Chief Minister agrees, then all of us will go for the meeting and if she says no, then we will go back from Gandhinagar without meeting her," Hardik said. The Patel community is agitating for the last two months for reservation in government jobs and educational institutes under OBC quota.
The stir had turned violent after their August 25 mega rally in Ahmedabad in which 10 people, including a policeman, were killed.
