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By Dev Ankur Wadhawan: Amid a fresh tussle between Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot, the state Congress leadership is set to hold talks with each party MLA separately next week. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, state Congress in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, and state president Govind Singh Dotasra will seek feedback from party MLAs, former MPs, and former MLAs.
The trio will be speaking with each and every party MLA individually on April 17, 18 and 20.
On April 19, the committee comprising of Gehlot, Randhawa and Dotasra will be speaking with former MPs and MLAs and those supporting the government from outside.
The agenda of the meetings will discuss with party leaders issues within the Congress party ahead of assembly elections due later this year. The topic of the discussion will also be on how the Congress government can beat anti-incumbency in Rajasthan.
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Notably, Sachin Pilot is scheduled to restart his public outreach programme on April 17, the same day the committee will start speaking one to one with MLAs.
SACHIN PILOT VS ASHOK GEHLOT
Earlier this week, Sachin Pilot opened a new front against Ashok Gehlot, observing a day-long fast to seek action from his government over alleged corruption during the BJP-ruled in the state. The Congress central leadership had warned that the move would be considered “anti-party”, but Sachin Pilot defied the warning and went ahead with his fast on Tuesday.
After he ended his fast, Pilot told reporters that Rahul Gandhi, the Congress and other opposition parties have united over corruption and financial irregularities, and claimed that his fast would speed up this movement. He also said that he wrote two letters on this issue to Ashok Gehlot, but did not receive any response.
“We had assured people that effective action will be taken against corruption by the former BJP government. I wanted the Congress government to take action but it has not happened in over four years,” Pilot said.
This struggle against corruption will continue, he added.
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Meanwhile, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot side-stepped questions on Sachin Pilot’s protest, saying his government’s focus was on easing inflation and nothing else was going to distract him from it.
AICC in-charge of state Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said he agreed with the issue of corruption taken up by Sachin Pilot but the manner in which it was raised was “wrong”.
Randhawa said, “He should have raised it during the Assembly session and spoken on the governor’s address ‘what are you doing about the cases’. That would have been a great platform to raise the issue, people would have got to know that Sachin Pilot is raising the matter, and the CM would have had to respond to it.”
“If he had not raised it there, he could have raised it with me as I meet him more often than I meet the CM due to my relations with this family since 1986. He should have also said ‘why arrests have not been made in the scam involving Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, arrest him, and also probe the case under Vasundhara Raje’. The things that he (Pilot) said in his press conference, I did not feel it is pro-party,” Randhawa said.
The Congress leader said he will do an analysis of the sequence of events of not just now but from before.
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