kagvad in 2010 with the stated aim of unifying the community and ridding it of ostentatious spending on social functions leuva patidars decided to set up an umbrella organization the shree khodhaldham trust the trusts first goal was building a grand temple to the communitys kuldevi clan goddess ma khodiyar the site chosen for khodhaldham was kagvad in rajkot district this january after a fiveday pranpratishthan function for which 20 lakh devotees had gathered according to trust authorities khodhaldham was opened to devotees if there was any doubt about the strength and organization of patidars the function was an awesome displayread this story in gujaratithere are about 1 crore leuva patidars in gujarat we are currently gathering data to estimate a precise number amreli junagadh rajkot bhavnagar and central and south gujarat have significant numbers of leuva patidars said paresh gajera who recently took over as president of the shree khodhaldham trust about 60 of leuva patidars make less than rs 200000 a year just about 20 are wealthy i too was a mere flower sellerthe condition of farmers is terrible today gajera said the reservation issue and agitation have arisen because people cant find jobs and farm income is falling steadily this affects our community in particular and that is why people are joining the stir he said the impact of the stir was seen in the 2015 selfgovernment elections patidar farmers are adversely affected by low cotton prices city dwellers by gst and notebandi the patidar effect will be seen on a large scale in these elections and it will not be surprising if the bjp suffers the brunthansraj gajera a trustee of khodhaldham said it is hard to tell how much the effect of the patidar stir will be there will be an effect but since hardiks intimate tapes have been released it may be diminished he said it might not be possible to secure reservations constitutionally the organizations of sidsar umiyadham and khodhaldham are working to organize the patidar community the aim of khodhaldham is not just to run a temple he said it should turn into a hub of education not only for patidars but also the rest of society we had decided that anyone who wants to contest elections will have to resign from the trustgajera said that on january 21 2017 509000 people set a guinness world record by singing the national anthem together this is just one of the records khodhaldham has set he said we had an area of 24 acres set up just to feed 435 lakh people from 129 food counters we used 40 minitractors to ferry food from the cooking area to the serving area there were 80000 volunteers looking after arrangements at the venue to ensure that the fiveday function passed off smoothly he said a community wedding of 521 couples was also held which was attended by 225 lakh peoplejetpur was once a bjp stronghold the party held it from 1990 till 2007 savji korat won