Reshma Patel is an Indian Politician and social activist fighting for the rights of women, children, youths, farmers and victims of injustice and inequality. she is an aam aadmi party leader. She was also associated with NCP. Former chief minister and NCP Gujarat president Sankarsih bapu Vaghela entrusted her as the General Secretary of Gujarat state NCP Nationalist Congress Party.

Family life

Reshma is a mother of twins and has a son and a daughter.

Social and political activism

She was also a member of Bharatiya Janata Party before joining Nationalist Congress Party. She has actively participated and contributed in well known

Patidar reservation agitation Starting in July 2015, the people of India's Patidar community, seeking Other Backward Class (OBC) status, held public demonstrations across the Indian state of Gujarat. The largest demonstration was held in Ahmedabad on 25 August 2015, and was ...

after police firing had killed innocent patidars and arrested Hardik Patel. She sat on an indefinite hunger strike for 21 days for the release of community members lodged in jail by the state. She filed public interest litigation for the use of

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in EVM machines which was dismissed by the Gujarat High Court. She has challenged the said order before the

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which is pending for the adjudication wherein the Supreme Court of India has issued notices to the Central Government,

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, Election Commission of Gujarat and the companies which manufacture EVMs. As she participated in Mehsana "Jail Bharo Aandolan" which turned violent, she was lodged in Sabarmati Central Jail, Ahmedabad and was released after more than 30 days with the strict and stringent conditions. In July 2017, in the "Azaddi kooch" held to protest the dalit atrocities in Gujarat, the police detained her, Kanhaiya Kumar and other activists. But after that she recently changed her political view, resigned from BJP and joined Nationalist Congress Party and contested in Manavadar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) by-election in March 2019.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Patel, Reshma Living people Indian political activists Indian women activists People from Ahmedabad district Year of birth missing (living people) Nationalist Congress Party politicians Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Gujarat