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Congress appoints Hardik Patel as working president of Gujarat unit

| @indiablooms | Jul 12, 2020, at 04:12 am

New Delhi/Gandhinagar/UNI: Hardik Patel, known as the face of the Patidar agitation in Gujarat, was on Saturday appointed as the working president of the state Congress.

"The Congress president Sonia Gandhi has approved the appointment of Hardik Patel as the working president of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress committee with immediate effect," AICC general secretary in charge of organization K C Venugopal said in a release.

The Congress president also approved the appointment of three DCC presidents in Gujarat.

Hardik Patel, who led the Patidar reservation agitation in Gujarat, had joined the Congress in Mar, 2019, ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

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