A Day After Getting Bail, Hardik Patel Invokes ‘Satyamev Jayate’

The release of Patel was welcomed with firecrackers and slogans by his supporters outside the high court.

Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel, who obtained bail in three cases is set to walk out free after being in jail for nine months. He has claimed that he did nothing to cause a law and order problem and invoked the famous phrase ‘Satyamev Jayate’ (‘truth alone prevails’).

Extolling the virtue of the phrase in a letter addressed to Gujarat government, Patel said:

Satyamev Jayate. This phrase has been the guiding force for Lord Rama and Mahatma Gandhi, and remains so for today’s youth. I have full faith in India’s judiciary. I believe that innocents and poor do get justice. I was thrown in jail even when I am not guilty

In the letter which was made public by his lawyer Yashwant Vala on Tuesday, he further added:

I have never supported violence in any from...Till date, I have never done anything that could cause law and order problem, nor do I intend to do any such thing in the future. I want to be the voice of the state through non-violence and work for the upliftment of the poor, farmers, youth, and women

Patel also claimed that his nine-odd months of jail term have taught him how to “cleanse dirty politics”, as he expressed his distrust of political parties like Congress and BJP.

I have spent nine months in my mother’s womb, and another nine months in jail, totalling eighteen months. In this period, I understood how to cleanse dirty politics.

Coming from a simple farmer’s family, Hardik said he has full faith in judiciary, and the court’s verdict has strengthened his belief that “innocents and poor do get justice”.

After nine months of incarceration, Hardik is set to walk out of jail as the Gujarat High Court removed the last hurdle by granting him bail in a case related to violence at Visnagar MLA’s office.

However, the Patel quota agitation leader will have to stay out of Gujarat for the next six months, as directed by the high court on Friday when it granted him bail in two sedition cases.

(With PTI Inputs)