"I had also asked the Congress for the role of a soldier in the party, but that did not happen. It may have been the first time that someone resigned to become a soldier," he added.
Patel, who quit Congress, last month joined the BJP in the presence of party state chief CR Patil at the party head office here.
Hardik catapulted to the political centre stage in 2015 when he spearheaded the Patidar reservation agitation in Gujarat, building the campaign in the run up the 2017 state Assembly elections
Since the day Hardik resigned from Congress, he has been attacking the party, saying the party is anti-Patidar and anti- Gujarat.
The Patidar leader, who joined the Congress in 2019 was elevated as one of the Gujarat Congress working presidents in 2020.
Patel had been previously arrested in connection with a sedition case filed by the local Crime Branch after violence broke out during a rally by the Patel community in Ahmedabad on August 25, 2015.
The prosecution told the court the accused intended to delay the trial by seeking regular exemption from appearance.
Patel accused the BJP of orchestrating the attack on him.
Patel, 25, had started preparations to contest from Jamnagar on a Congress ticket after joining the party.
In July last year, the sessions court of Visnagar in Mehsana district had sentenced him to two years imprisonment for rioting and arson which took place in Visnagar town in 2015.
