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BJP's Hardik Patel is contesting his first Assembly election from Gujarat's Viramgam. We followed him on his campaign trail and also managed to catch up with him and hear his thoughts about Congress and AAP campaigns in Gujarat, his move to the BJP after being with Congress for many years and what is on top of his priority list if he gets elected. Here's what he told us! 

Gujarat goes to the polls in the third phase of elections. In the last five years it has seen economic upheaval as a result of demonetisation and implementation of the GST. It has also seen mass agitation by Patidars and Dalits over reservations and atrocities respectively, and a resurgence of the Congress in the last Assembly elections. What are the issues on voters' minds this time? Will the economic downturn and agricultural distress play a role in determining the outcome? We're joined by Scroll.in's Aarefa Johari, an award winning journalist who has extensively covered the state in the last few years, to give us her thoughts and insights You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the new and improved IVM Podcast App on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios.

Don’t have time to keep a tab on news throughout the day? CNN News18 brings you the day’s top news and newsmakers in less than 3 minutes! Here are today’s top picks: BJP releases first list of candidates for Gujarat polls, 70 names in BJP's first list, 16 Patidars, CM Vijay Rupani to contest from Rajkot West seat NEWS India moved a notch higher on the Moody’s list after a gap of 13 years. US-based International rating agency rated Indian government bond as ‘baa2’ ahead of its earlier rating of ‘baa3’. ‘Baa2’ corresponds to moderate credit risk while ‘baa3’ has higher risk levels. The agency cited and lauded demonetisation and GST as primary reasons for the upgrade with transparency in fiscal administration along with DBT and Aadhaar as other reasons. Taking credit for the lift Finance minister Arun Jaitley said it will help increase money flow in the economy. The finance minister also used the occasion to term demonetisation and GST as globally recognized and appreciated moves that he said will not hold back the economy. SPORTS Australia's Ashes squad for the first two Tests announced on Friday had a couple of surprise inclusions as wicket-keeper Tim Paine and opening batsman Cameron Bancroft were named among the 13 selected. Paine is set to don the baggy green after a seven-year gap, meanwhile Bancroft replaced out of form opener Matt Renshaw. ENTERTAINMENT The controversy surrounding Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmavati continues, with protests and havans being held in several towns and cities across the country. The historic Chittorgarh Fort, which houses the palace of Padmavati, remained shut today as protesters gathered outside it in large numbers. The firing of a gun at the protests by unnamed persons has been reported. TECH OnePlus has unveiled its new flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 5T as a successor to its previous flagship, the OnePlus 5. The smartphone carries heavy upgrades over the previous OnePlus offering with a 6-inch bezel-less Full Optic AMOLED Display with an 18:9 aspect ratio, Face Unlocking and an improved camera performance. The OnePlus 5T will be available in India starting November 21 and will be priced at Rs 32,999.

The odds are that if you don’t figure in an administration’s records, you won’t figure in the historical record. But what do you do to get into those records? Raising a ruckus is one way. But that works only if someone else hasn’t managed to raise more of a ruckus than you can ever hope to – and this, as Vinayak Chaturvedi tells us in Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India (University of California Press, 2007) was exactly the situation the peasants of Gujarat faced during the last century of British rule in India. The Dharala peasants lived and worked in the Kheda district, the stomping ground of the powerful Patidar community, who formed a support base for Mahatma Gandhi’s satyagraha campaigns. The Mahatma’s nationalism did not, however, attract the Dharalas, given that the Patidars had co-opted it for themselves. The Dharalas felt they stood nothing to gain by joining forces with groups that locally exercised economic power over them. But that is not to say they didn’t have their own ideas about the way they wished to live, as Chaturvedi shows.Peasant Pasts skillfully traces how the Dharalas, through many demonstrations employing traditional as well as more recent forms of protest, managed to form a distinct political identity of their own, one that is current and excites much debate in the region. And yes, they did manage to get themselves into the administrative records of the Indian state as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The odds are that if you don’t figure in an administration’s records, you won’t figure in the historical record. But what do you do to get into those records? Raising a ruckus is one way. But that works only if someone else hasn’t managed to raise more of a ruckus than you can ever hope to – and this, as Vinayak Chaturvedi tells us in Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India (University of California Press, 2007) was exactly the situation the peasants of Gujarat faced during the last century of British rule in India. The Dharala peasants lived and worked in the Kheda district, the stomping ground of the powerful Patidar community, who formed a support base for Mahatma Gandhi’s satyagraha campaigns. The Mahatma’s nationalism did not, however, attract the Dharalas, given that the Patidars had co-opted it for themselves. The Dharalas felt they stood nothing to gain by joining forces with groups that locally exercised economic power over them. But that is not to say they didn’t have their own ideas about the way they wished to live, as Chaturvedi shows.Peasant Pasts skillfully traces how the Dharalas, through many demonstrations employing traditional as well as more recent forms of protest, managed to form a distinct political identity of their own, one that is current and excites much debate in the region. And yes, they did manage to get themselves into the administrative records of the Indian state as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The odds are that if you don’t figure in an administration’s records, you won’t figure in the historical record. But what do you do to get into those records? Raising a ruckus is one way. But that works only if someone else hasn’t managed to raise more of a ruckus than you can ever hope to – and this, as Vinayak Chaturvedi tells us in Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India (University of California Press, 2007) was exactly the situation the peasants of Gujarat faced during the last century of British rule in India. The Dharala peasants lived and worked in the Kheda district, the stomping ground of the powerful Patidar community, who formed a support base for Mahatma Gandhi’s satyagraha campaigns. The Mahatma’s nationalism did not, however, attract the Dharalas, given that the Patidars had co-opted it for themselves. The Dharalas felt they stood nothing to gain by joining forces with groups that locally exercised economic power over them. But that is not to say they didn’t have their own ideas about the way they wished to live, as Chaturvedi shows.Peasant Pasts skillfully traces how the Dharalas, through many demonstrations employing traditional as well as more recent forms of protest, managed to form a distinct political identity of their own, one that is current and excites much debate in the region. And yes, they did manage to get themselves into the administrative records of the Indian state as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices