Rajasthan management tussle: Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot comply with battle meeting polls united | File Picture
Amid their ongoing management tussle, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot have left it to Congress excessive command to take the choice, social gathering basic secretary KC Venugopal mentioned on Monday. Gehlot and Pilot have additionally agreed to battle the upcoming meeting polls collectively, he added.
Venugopal’s assertion on the Rajasthan Congress management impasse comes after each Gehlot and Pilot met social gathering President Mallikarjun Kharge. “It will likely be a joint battle with BJP, we’ll win Rajasthan,” Venugopal additional mentioned.
Prime Congress management led by social gathering chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi held marathon discussions with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Pilot joined them later within the night. The Congress’ in-charge of state affairs Sukhjinder Randhawa was additionally current on the assembly.
The social gathering sought to mission that each one was tremendous in its Rajasthan unit with sources claiming that the social gathering has labored out a components for each the state leaders to work collectively and battle the meeting elections unitedly.
Addressing reporters after the assembly at Kharge’s 10, Rajaji Marg, residence, social gathering basic secretary Ok C Venugopal mentioned each the leaders held prolonged discussions with Kharge and Gandhi concerning the upcoming Rajasthan election.
“We have now determined to battle the election unitedly. Each are in settlement that the Congress social gathering has to work collectively and positively we’ll win the election in Rajasthan,” he mentioned, flanked by Gehlot and Pilot.
“It is rather clear that Rajasthan goes to be a robust state for the Congress social gathering. We’re going to win. Due to this fact, each Gehlot ji and Sachin ji have determined to go collectively. The Congress social gathering will battle elections unitedly,” Venugopal mentioned.
“Each the leaders Ashok ji and Sachin ji agreed to the proposal on these items,” he additionally mentioned. Requested what proposal he was speaking out, Venugopal mentioned, “Each have left it to the (social gathering) excessive command. The excessive command will take the choice and each have agreed.”
On what components has been determined, he mentioned, “We determined that each the leaders have agreed to go collectively and it is going to be a joint battle towards the BJP. We are going to win the state.” Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh later tweeted, “The Congress social gathering is properly on its approach to repeating its Karnataka success in Rajasthan as properly.”
Pilot has been attacking the Gehlot authorities over the problem of inaction on alleged corruption through the earlier BJP authorities led by Vasundhara Raje and has been vocal towards his personal social gathering’s chief minister.
This was the primary time after an extended hole that the Rajasthan chief minister and his former deputy met face-to-face within the presence of prime social gathering management. Kharge and Gandhi are holding parleys with leaders of poll-bound states to evolve the social gathering’s technique for the meeting elections and nook the BJP. The social gathering management can be working onerous to resolve the infighting within the Rajasthan unit forward of meeting polls and set at relaxation the variations between the 2 leaders.
The Congress prime brass held discussions with prime social gathering leaders from Madhya Pradesh within the morning, after which Gandhi mentioned the social gathering would win 150 seats within the state. The assembly comes shut on the heels of Pilot’s “ultimatum” that if three calls for he made out of the state authorities weren’t met by the tip of this month, he would launch a state-wide agitation.
One in all Pilot’s calls for was initiating a high-level inquiry into the alleged scams through the Vasundhara Raje authorities. Chatting with reporters earlier, Gehlot mentioned there is no such thing as a such custom within the social gathering to supply posts to any chief in an effort to pacify him.
“So far as I do know, there is no such thing as a such custom within the Congress the place any chief calls for one thing and the social gathering excessive command affords to offer that place. We have now not heard of such a components ever,” he mentioned when requested about studies of a components being labored out to rope in Pilot.
Rubbishing such studies, he mentioned, “By no means has such a factor occurred within the Congress to date and neither will it occur sooner or later. The Congress social gathering and the excessive command are very robust and no chief or employee has the braveness to demand any place. It doesn’t occur like that.”
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 towards the Gehlot authorities after which he was faraway from the posts of the social gathering’s state unit president and deputy chief minister.
