After winning the Rajya Sabha seat from Gujarat for a fifth term, Congress leader Ahmed Patel said, "I was fighting the election only as a Congress candidate. The BJP hyped the Rajya Sabha election into a more important contest than it was by relating it the election of Congress president's political secretary." Asked whether Sonia Gandhi's credibility would have been undermined if Rajya Sabha election results had gone against him, Patel said that even an unfavourable verdict would not have impacted Sonia Gandhi. But I was very sure from the very beginning that we would never lose this election." I always stay in touch with my MLAs", said Ahmed Patel.

Source: India Today August 09, 2017 12:22 UTC