A day after Mr. Hardik Patel left the Congress, the party's Gujarat unit president Jagdish Thakor on May 19 claimed that he took the step as he was afraid that he might have to go to jail in sedition cases registered against him.
Mr. Thakor also claimed that Mr. Patel might join the ruling BJP.
The Congress leader made these claims soon after Mr. Patel held a press conference, in which he alleged that he was not given any meaningful work despite being the working president of the party's state unit. Mr. Patel also accused the party of having no vision and its state unit being too much into "caste-based politics".
