NEW DELHI: Seeking to resolve the infighting in Rajasthan Congress, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday met celebration chief Mallikarjun Kharge right here on Monday within the presence of Rahul Gandhi. AICC common secretary Ok C Venugopal and celebration chief from Rajasthan Jitendra Singh was additionally current on the assembly.
Congress president Kharge can also be scheduled to satisfy Gehlot’s bete noire Sachin Pilot later within the day, sources stated. About half an hour after the assembly between Kharge, Gandhi and Gehlot, AICC in-charge for Rajasthan Sukhjinder Randhawa joined them for discussions. Kharge and Gandhi are holding parleys with leaders of poll-bound states with a purpose to evolve the celebration technique for the meeting elections.
The Congress management has already held discussions with high leaders from Madhya Pradesh within the morning, after which Gandhi stated the celebration would win 150 seats within the state. Earlier, Gehlot stated the celebration excessive command is powerful and it’ll by no means provide any place to any chief or employee to pacify him.
The assembly comes shut on the heels of Pilot’s “ultimatum” that if three calls for he created from the state authorities weren’t met by the top of this month, he would launch a state-wide agitation. Pilot has requested for a high-level inquiry into the alleged scams that happened throughout the tenure of the previous Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje authorities, as considered one of his calls for.
Speaking to reporters earlier, Gehlot stated there isn’t a such custom within the celebration to supply posts to any chief with a purpose to pacify him. “As far as I know, there is no such tradition in the Congress where any leader demands something and the party high command offers to give that position. We have not heard of such a formula ever,” he stated when requested about stories of a components being labored out to rope in Pilot.
Rubbishing such stories, he stated it is just the creation of the media and a few leaders could also be getting such tales planted. “Never has such a thing happened in the Congress so far and neither will it happen in the future. The Congress party and the high command is very strong and no leader or worker has the courage to demand any position. It does not happen like that,” the chief minister asserted.
Gehlot and Pilot have been engaged in an influence tussle for the reason that Congress shaped authorities within the state in 2018. In 2020, Pilot led a failed revolt in opposition to the Gehlot authorities after which he was faraway from the posts of celebration’s state unit president and deputy chief minister. Pilot had final month defied a warning from the celebration and went forward with a day-long quick focusing on Gehlot over his “inaction” on alleged corruption beneath the earlier BJP authorities.