New Delhi, Jan. 19 -- : The BJP is repeatedly harassing Hardik Patel, who fights for the rights of farmers and employment for youths, said Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday.

"BJP is repeatedly harassing Hardik Patel, who fights for the rights of farmers and employment for youths. Hardik has raised the people's voice, asked for jobs for them, make the demand for the scholarship. Launched farmers' movement. BJP is terming all this as sedition," said Gandhi in a tweet.

Congress leader Patel, who has been sent to judicial custody till January 24, was arrested on Saturday after he failed to appear before a trial court in Ahmedabad in connection with an alleged case of sedition.

Patel was booked by the Crime Branch in ...