Amid the ongoing tussle in the Gujarat Congress unit, Patidar quota agitation leader Hardik Patel resigned from the Congress. In his resignation letter, Patel made no attempt to hide his disappointment with the party.

He took potshots at the state Congress leadership saying some are more focused on ensuring that the leaders from Delhi get "chicken sandwich" on time. While launching a scathing attack on Congress' senior leadership, Patel in his letter said that the Congress "only played to the role of a roadblock" over certain key issues in the country and was "merely reduced to opposing everything".