{"id":23095,"date":"2022-05-31T08:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T08:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=23095"},"modified":"2022-05-31T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T08:50:18","slug":"hardik-patel-to-join-bjp-on-june-2-party-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/31\/hardik-patel-to-join-bjp-on-june-2-party-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardik Patel to join BJP on June 2: Party spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ahmedabad, May 31: Former Congress leader Hardik Patel will join the BJP on June 2 in the presence of Gujarat party president C R Paatil, a state party spokesperson said on Tuesday.<br>After Patidar quota agitation leader Patel recently resigned from the Congress, there were speculations that he may join the ruling BJP. He had praised the BJP\u2019s decision-making capacity and style of functioning, while severely criticising the Congress leadership.<br>\u201cIt is confirmed that Hardik Patel will join the BJP on June 2 in the presence of state president C R Paatil,\u201d BJP\u2019s state spokesperson Yagnesh Dave said.<br>Patel had joined the Congress in 2019.<br>Before quitting the Congress earlier this month, Patel wrote a scathing letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi, claiming the Congress \u201conly played the role of a roadblock\u201d over certain key issues in the country and was \u201cmerely reduced to opposing everything\u201d. (Agencies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmedabad, May 31: Former Congress leader Hardik Patel will join the BJP on June 2 in the presence of Gujarat party president C R Paatil, a state party spokesperson said on Tuesday.After Patidar quota agitation leader Patel recently resigned from the Congress, there were speculations that he may join the ruling BJP. He had praised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23097,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23095\/revisions\/23097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}