BMC Polls 2017: Bitter Modi baiter Hardik Patel to meet Uddhav Thackeray, address Sena rally

Patidar agitation leader Hardik Patel will be in Mumbai on Tuesday and is scheduled to meet  Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray at his residence Matoshree. Patel will also be addressing Shiv Sena's public meeting at Goregaon, a suburb consisting of Gujarati voters mostly, in the evening. Industry Minister Subhash Desai and local Sena candidate Biren Limbachia will also be present at the meeting.

Goregaon is BJP leader and former deputy mayor Dilip Patel's constituency. This comes just ahead of BMC elections which will be held on February 21. 

Shiv Sena has decided to contest BMC elections separatetly, and not with its ally the BJP. The two parties have been running a coalition government at the Centre, state and BMC over the last few years. However, things have been on the boil recently. 

In the first rally on Saturday ahead of polls, Uddhav Thackeray also slammed BJP chief Amit Shah saying that the upcoming electoral battles are no "friendly matches" and the BJP has lost a "staunch supporter" who backed Prime Minister Narendra Modi even after the Gujarat riots in 2002. Hardik Patel had led Patel quota row in Gujarat, which is a BJP-ruled state, as a result of which he was sent to jail on sedition charges​. He returned to Gujarat last month after spending six months  in Udaipur, Rajasthan. He was released on bail by the Gujarat High Court on July 15, 2016.