Amid energy tussle with Pilot, Rajasthan CM Gehlot tells media to not make folks combat
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Amid a tussle over management together with his former deputy Sachin Pilot, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has mentioned media mustn’t make folks combat.
Interacting with reporters right here on Monday, he asserted the Congress’ election marketing campaign within the state would deal with the schemes and programmes launched by his authorities. The veteran Congress chief additionally exuded confidence that his get together would return to energy based mostly on the work achieved within the final 5 years.
Gehlot’s feedback come within the backdrop of an ongoing tussle with Pilot. The duo has been at loggerheads over the chief minister’s put up ever because the Congress fashioned the federal government in Rajasthan in December 2018.
Recently, Pilot opened one other entrance in opposition to Gehlot by holding a day-long quick whereas alleging that the state authorities didn’t take motion in opposition to the alleged corruption through the tenure of the BJP regime led by Vasundhara Raje, as promised earlier than the 2018 meeting polls.
Gehlot, nevertheless, has not supplied any direct response to Pilot’s assault. On Monday, he mentioned the media mustn’t make folks combat.
“The media should stick to the truth and facts… The media should not make us fight with each other. They (media persons) should fulfil their duty and it is in the public interest… The media should support the government in reiterating the truth,” he mentioned.
“I do not say ‘present false figures or praise us falsely’ but I would like the media to run based on truth. The media is under the pressure of the central government but they should see the interest of the public,” Gehlot advised reporters right here.
About his authorities’s schemes and the upcoming meeting elections, the Congress chief mentioned the get together’s marketing campaign would deal with the schemes of his dispensation.
