Narendra Patel: BJP offered Rs 1 crore to join the party

Narendra Patel, convenor of Hardik Patel (led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) in north Gujarat) has said that he was offered Rs 1 crore by the BJP to join the party. He said the BJP already paid Rs 10 lakh as part of the deal.

After the allegations came in public Congress demanded a judicial investigation into the incident, the BJP dismissed the allegations as baseless.

Senior Congress leader Manish Tewari demanded that an FIR should be filed against Gujarat BJP and a judicial probe should be ordered into them.

He said "During the Rajya Sabha elections also, our MLAs came out and said that they were being bribed. However, no action was taken. Instead, Income Tax and CBI raids took place on our MLAs,".