Hardik Patel to join BJP on June 2

Former Congress leader Hardik Patel is set to join BJP on June 2 ahead of the Gujarat elections scheduled to take place in November-December.

Patel, who rose to prominence leading the Patidar quota stir, left the Congress recently as working president.

Before quitting, Patel (28), who had joined the Congress in 2019, wrote a scathing letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi, claiming the party "only played the role of a roadblock" over certain key issues in the country and was "merely reduced to opposing everything".

He had also recently praised the BJP for its "decision making" leadership.