Shankarsinh Vaghela, the maverick of Gujarat politics, claims he was the first to wean away the Patel or Patidar community from the Congress in 1975. But he didn’t want to,” Vaghela told ET Magazine at his palatial farmhouse Vasant Vagado on the outskirts of Gandhinagar. Gujarat government came out with a policy to help small industries in 2015 after large-scale shut downs. The picture that emerges is the Sangh Parivar’s Hindu unification project in Gujarat is unravelling as its need to cling to power grows. As a senior RSS leader put it: “It is politics that is ruining the unity.”Temples dot the skyline of most cities, towns and villages in Gujarat.

Source: Economic Times December 02, 2017 18:45 UTC