As announced earlier, Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) is all set to take pro-reservation stir on national platform by organising four rallies in poll-bound Bihar next month.
PAAS convener Hardik Patel on Friday said apart from four rallies in Bihar, PAAS would conduct two rallies each in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and one each in Jharkhand and Haryana.
“We are also planning a rally in neighbouring Rajasthan. However, Rajasthan rally will be done in the later stage. As of now we are concentrating on Bihar rallies,” he said, adding that all the rallies would be non-political and with a clear aim to create awareness among Patidars across the country over reservation policy through Patel Navnirman Sena (PNS).
Recently, Hardik had floated PNS with a view to involve the communities akin to Patels with different nomenclatures across 14 States in order to make agitation national. According to him, population of Patidars in the country is nearly 27 crores and most of them were depriving from reservation benefits.
“Not a single leader from the BJP said anything on the atrocity committed on the Patel community in the State till date,” he said in a statement adding the PNS would conduct four big rallies in Bihar next week and all 197 conveners from Gujarat would take part in them, conveners from Gujarat would take part in them.
PNS workers from UP and MP will travel to Bihar to make the rallies successful.”
On his meeting with Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, he said the State Government was not clearing its stance on pro-reservation agitation initiated by Patidars.
Meanwhile, the pro-quota agitation leaders on Friday resorted to ‘Gandhigiri’ and presented red roses to the ruling MPS, MlAs and municipal counsellors of ruling BJP drawing inspiration from the Hindi film Munnabhai MBBS. On the much talked about Ekta Yatra from Dandi to Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, PAAS leaders are still waiting for permission from authorities.
The proposed ‘reverse’ Dandi march has been postponed twice after the Government denied it the permission apprehending clashes between the upper caste Patels and the other backward classes, Dalits and Adivasis.