Hours after denouncing the Congress "the same as the BJP", young Gujarat leader Hardik Patel has announced that he will continue to back the party despite a behind-the-scenes dispute over how many candidates he is allowed to field in next month's election. The Congress, he said, has offered an acceptable solution for how to include Patels as beneficiaries of affirmative action policies. That is his one-point agenda, he said, and it entails "doing my utmost to defeat the BJP".
