Rajasthan Congress disaster: The Congress social gathering on Monday introduced that it’ll combat the Rajasthan meeting elections unitedly as each CM Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot have agreed to the proposal. The assertion was made by Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal after a key social gathering assembly attended by Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Gehlot and Pilot in Delhi.
Earlier immediately, Gehlot met Kharge at his residence at round 6 pm, a couple of minutes after which Gandhi additionally joined them. The Congress chief and Gandhi held deliberations with Gehlot for about half an hour, after which the social gathering’s in-charge for Rajasthan Sukhjinder Randhawa was known as in.
Pilot, who has been attacking the Gehlot authorities over the difficulty of inaction on corruption in the course of the earlier BJP authorities led by Vasundhara Raje, joined the assembly after two hours at Kharge’s residence. This is the primary time after a protracted hole that the Rajasthan CM and his former deputy are assembly face-to-face within the presence of prime social gathering management.
AICC common secretary Okay C Venugopal and social gathering chief from Rajasthan Jitendra Singh have been additionally current on the assembly.
Kharge more likely to mediate tussle
Kharge and Gandhi are holding parleys with leaders of poll-bound states as a way to evolve the social gathering technique for the meeting elections to nook the BJP in these states. The social gathering management can be working laborious to resolve the infighting within the Rajasthan unit forward of meeting polls and set at relaxation the variations between the 2 leaders. The Congress brass has already held discussions with prime leaders from Madhya Pradesh within the morning, after which Gandhi mentioned the social gathering would win 150 seats within the state.
Earlier, Gehlot mentioned the social gathering’s excessive command is powerful and it’ll by no means supply 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 constructed from the state authorities weren’t met by the tip of this month, he would launch a state-wide agitation. Pilot has requested for a high-level inquiry into the alleged scams that passed off in the course of the tenure of the previous Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje authorities, as one in all his calls for.
What Gehlot mentioned
Speaking to reporters earlier, Gehlot mentioned there isn’t any such custom within the social gathering to supply posts to any chief as a way 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 mentioned when requested about studies of a method being labored out to rope in Pilot.
Rubbishing such studies, he mentioned 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 are 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 fashioned 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 the social gathering’s state unit president and deputy chief minister.
Pilot had final month defied a warning from the social gathering and went forward with a day-long quick focusing on Gehlot over his “inaction” on alleged corruption in the course of the earlier Raje authorities.
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