Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader Hardik Patel. The absence of a crowd near the youth leader’s residence in Ahmedabad, where he sat on a fast from 25 August for 19 days, shows that his popularity is on the wane. Hardik’s hunger strike did not turn out to be a mass protest movement as many of his supporters had expected. The state government, which has in the past held several rounds of meetings with the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader, did not budge this time. He is seen as more of a gallery politician and not a Patidar leader.

Source: Mint September 20, 2018 16:25 UTC