Once a fierce critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Congress leader Hardik Patel, who is set to join the ruling BJP in Gujarat on Thursday, posted a tweet in the morning saying he would work as a "soldier" of PM Modi and start a "new chapter". Patel is set to join the BJP at 12 pm on Thursday.
The Patidar leader's departure will hurt the Congress ahead of assembly elections later this year. But the BJP can also defang him, like it did with Alpesh Thakor earlier.
On the 103rd anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on Wednesday, Chief Justice of India, NV Ramana, reached the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial to pay his trib