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Hardik Patel will not be able to contest upcoming Lok Sabha elections

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Ahmedabad | Patidar leader Hardik Patel will not be able to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, to be held next month, following Gujarat High Court’s order.

The Gujarat high court on Friday rejected Congress leader Hardik Patel’s plea seeking suspension of his conviction in a rioting case of 2015 in Mehsana.

The incident of rioting had taken place in 2015 during the Patidar protest for reservation in Mehsana district, which was the epicentre of agitation.
As per Representation of the People Act, 2015 Patel is prohibited to contest elections due to his conviction.
Public prosecutor Mitesh Amin presented that Hardik Patil had 17 FIRs registered against him, and several criminal cases. He claimed that Patel himself had accepted that he was present in Visnaar at the time of riots, and was leading the Patidar agitation.
Patel’s lawyer said it will cause “irreplaceable damage” as Patel intended to contest elections.
In July 2018, the sessions court at Visnagar had sentenced Patel to two years’ imprisonment for rioting and arson in Visnagar town during the 2015 Patidar quota stir. The high court granted him bail and suspended his sentence in August 2018, but his conviction was not stayed.
According to the Representation of the People Act, a convicted cannot contest elections unless the conviction has stayed.
Hardik Patel is one of the star campaigners of Congress.
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If Pakistan fires a single bullet, we will answer with artillery fire: BJP Chief Amit Shah

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Alipurduar (WB) | BJP president Amit Shah on Friday lashed out at the Opposition parties for questioning the Narendra Modi government over air strikes on terror camps in Pakistan and advocating talks with Islamabad to resolve various issues.

The Narendra Modi government has given befitting replies to China and Pakistan, he said, adding “we are fighting to secure our country”.

Kicking off the BJP’s Lok Sabha poll campaign in West Bengal from Alipurduar, Shah said, “We have given befitting replies to China on the Dokalam issue and to Pakistan for its use of terror elements against India. If Pakistan fires a single bullet, we will answer with artillery fire.”

He hit out at the Opposition parties, saying “when the government is fighting against terrorists to protect the nation, they are questioning it.”

The electorate this time will choose between “strong and decisive” Narendra Modi on the one hand and “thugbandhan leaders such as Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee and Akhilesh Yadav on the other”, he said in a veiled reference to the ‘mahagathbandhan’ or grand alliance of the opposition parties to dislodge the BJP.

Shah mocked Congress president Rahul Gandhi for seeking answers on the Modi government’s performance. “We don’t need to answer you. First, you should tell us what the UPA government did in 10 years.”

The Congress-led UPA-I and UPA-II governments under Manmohan Singh had been in power from 2004 to 2014.

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