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By India Today News Desk: Union Home Minister Amit Shah took a potshot at the factional feud in Rajasthan Congress between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former Deputy Sachin Pilot.
Addressing Sachin Pilot on Saturday in Rajashthan’s Bharatpur, the home minister said that Sachin Pilot’s number won’t come no matter what he does, as Ashok Gehlot’s contribution was more in filling Congress’s treasure.
The statement was an apparent dig at Sachin Pilot’s much-talked-about ambition of becoming Rajasthan’s chief minister.
“Pilot ji, whatever you do, your number won’t come, perhaps your contribution is more on a ground level than Gehlot ji, but Gehlot ji’s contribution is more in the Congress’s treasure,” said the home minister while addressing booth-level party workers.
Shah was alluding to Sachin Pilot’s recent one-day hunger strike against his own government to press for action against alleged corruption during the previous BJP government in the state.
Slamming Gehlot, Amit Shah said that the chief minister had made the Rajasthan government a hub of corruption and looted the state. The BJP leader also alleged that the looted money had gone to the treasures of the Congress party.
People “will vote out the government in elections,” Shah said and exuded confidence that the BJP will form the government with a 2/3 majority in assembly elections and will again win all 25 seats in Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan.
(With input from PTI and ANI)
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