It is too long and too far the complex issues of landholding Patels are contained with superficial " Hindutwa" religious politics. Their marginalisation in the new economic model of urban centric neo rich brought out by Mr. Modi's Gujarath model this was bound to take place. The murmur and discontent were taking place in isolated pockets among the one time powerful landholding Patel constituencies for far too long.

Administration has been mismanaging the rural and semi-urban Gujarat for nearly more than a decade now. One of the biggest lacuna in the system created was the engineered depoliticisation of the rural Gujarat, that it otherwise would have intermittently expressed and relieved the social cracks. Unfortunately, BJP oppressed it with a superficial "hindutwa" religious social engineering. Before one blames Patels for the call for reservation, one should ask why would one time powerful Patel community now have to beg for reservation in a supposedly economically prosperous Gujarat?? Patels owe an answer from politicians and administration.

The big picture is what is taking place in Gujarat is nothing short of the consequence of Mandal commission days of V P Singh. Today Gujarat society stands vertically split on caste lines with the proposed processions on 25th and 27th by Patels and other caste hindu communities.

The truth is more than twenty years of superficially de-politicised Hindutwa social engineering of artificial unity stand crumbled today in Gujarat . Global economic meltdown and subsequent stock exchange crash where urban Petals have huge stake will only accentuate it.