Rajasthan Congress disaster: The Congress excessive command has summoned Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot for separate conferences with get together president Mallikarjuna Kharge within the nationwide capital at this time to resolve the interior feud in Rajasthan Congress, a senior get together chief accustomed to the event stated. This is an important assembly forward of the upcoming elections within the state.Â
The Congress management is making an attempt onerous to resolve the continued bitter feud between Gehlot and Pilot and plainly the tussle between the 2 leaders might come to an finish. Sachin Pilot and Ashok Gehlot have been engaged in an influence tussle since 2020.Â
Rahul Gandhi doubtless to attend assembly
In addition to Congress Chief, Rajasthan CM and Pilot, get together chief Rahul Gandhi can be doubtless to be a part of the assembly. The chief minister’s workplace has additionally launched Gehlot’s programme confirming his go to to Delhi, the place he may also lay the muse stone of the Rajasthan House.
Pilot’s “ultimatum” to Congress
The proposed 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 passed off through the tenure of the previous Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje authorities, as one in all his calls for.
According to the senior chief, a gathering of the Congress top brass with all of the state leaders was scheduled on May 26 however was later postponed. He stated that now the excessive command will meet Gehlot and Pilot individually to convey them on one platform forward of the meeting elections, that are due later this yr.
A Congress senior chief stated that Kharge was profitable in bringing Siddaramaiah and D Okay Shivakumar collectively in Karnataka and the get together now desires to attempt the identical method in Rajasthan. He additionally stated that a number of days in the past a gathering of the Congress excessive command with the leaders of all poll-bound states, together with Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana, was deliberate, which was postponed.
Pilot’s ‘Jan Sangharsh Yatra’Â
Last month Pilot noticed a quick demanding motion from his personal authorities over instances of alleged corruption through the BJP’s time period. Despite a warning issued to him by the Congress, Pilot noticed his daylong quick on the Shaheed Smarak, Jaipur.
Later on May 11, Pilot launched a 125-kilometre ‘Jan Sangharsh Yatra’ from Ajmer to Jaipur to elevate the difficulty of corruption through the earlier BJP regime led by Vasundhara Raje and instances of paper leaks in authorities recruitment exams. Following the summons, Pilot cancelled his tour and left for Delhi.Â
He additionally demanded disbanding of the Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) and its reconstitution, compensation for these affected by authorities job examination paper leak instances, and a high-level probe into prices of corruption he has levelled towards the earlier BJP authorities. “If action is not taken by this month-end on these three demands, an agitation will be launched across the state,” the previous deputy chief minister informed a rally.
(With PTI inputs)
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