The reports say that Hardik Patel, who spearheaded the Patidar reservation movement in the state, secretly met Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday. BREAKING NEWSOn Monday evening, Gujarati TV channels animatedly broadcast CCTV footage from cameras installed at a five-star hotel in Ahmedabad. "The Congress leaders had invited me to meet them but I was at a rally in Mahisagar district. I presented the demands of the Patidars and the issues we are concerned about," Hardik Patel was quoted as saying by news agency IANS. The Gujarati daily, quoting unnamed sources, further said that Narendra Patel was "guided" by Hardik Patel and the Congress leaders on how to "expose" the BJP.

Source: India Today October 24, 2017 00:55 UTC