CM’s post is not leaving me, let us see what is next, says Gehlot | Jaipur News
The CM’s comments came during a conversation he had with Dhauli Devi, a resident of Alwar who underwent a heart transplant under the state government’s Chiranjeevi health insurance scheme. Gehlot was virtually participating in the organ transplant programme from the CM House.
Praising the state government’s schemes, Dhauli Devi said, “I wish he (Gehlot) remains the chief minister.”
No BJP leader can take on Congress in Rajasthan: CM
To this, Gehlot replied, “You are saying that I should remain the chief minister, (but) I myself feel that the post of chief minister is not leaving me. Now let us see what happens next.”
Speaking to the media after the event, Gehlot attacked the Opposition BJP’s state leaders and said there was none among the current BJP leaders to match and take on Congress in Rajasthan. “Two-term chief minister Vasundhara Raje, who has a stature, is being sidelined (by BJP),” he said in an apparent reference to her absence from BJP’s protest rally held in Jaipur on Tuesday.
“BJP leaders claim the next assembly elections will be fought on PM Narendra Modi’s face, but the truth is that BJP’s current state leaders are unacceptable to the people. So they claim that they want to fight the elections with the PM’s face,” said Gehlot.
“Modi is the prime minister and the Vishwa-Guru (world leader), while I am not the PM. Why you (BJP) want to fight the assembly election on the PM face?” said Gehlot sarcastically. The CM added, “BJP has about 25 leaders vying for the CM’s post, but they do not have the guts to fight the state election on their own… Congress will fight the upcoming assembly elections on the state government’s welfare and social security schemes.”
