Rajasthan
Pilot: Congress meet in Delhi on Thursday to resolve Ashok Gehlot-Sachin Pilot tussle | Jaipur News
JAIPUR: With the Karnataka polls over to the satisfaction of Congress, the party’s focus now is on Rajasthan, where it is the ruling party facing Assembly elections in a few months but remains a divided house due to the tussle between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot.
Sources said the Congress leadership is likely to hold a meeting in Delhi on May 25 to find a resolution to the vexing crisis in the party’s Rajasthan unit before Rahul Gandhi leaves for the US on May 28. Pilot has given an ultimatum that if the state government does not act on his demands by May 30, he would launch a state-wide protest. This has made Congress leaders scramble for a face-saving formula to keep the young leader in the party.
Pilot had articulated his three demands at the end of his five-day Jan Sangharsh Yatra on May 15 – an inquiry into corruption charges against the previous Raje government, an overhaul of RPSC that has become notorious for paper leaks, and compensation to youth affected by papers leaks – and set the May 30 deadline. Pilot had gone to Delhi after his yatra and returned to the state on Sunday night.
Congress in-charge for Rajasthan SS Randhawa has said that Pilot’s threat has to be handled by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge. He has said that the party will discuss all the issues in Delhi soon.
While Pilot has been insisting that his demands concern the state government and not the party, Gehlot has been maintaining a stoic silence on the issue. Whenever the media asked him about it, the CM said that his priority and focus now is the ongoing rahat camps.
Meanwhile, the Pilot camp seems divided on what action to be taken next. While the young lot in his camp are egging him on to break away from Congress and chart an independent path, seniors have been insisting that Pilot should not go out but fight within the party. All eyes are now on the party high command’s efforts to bring about a truce between the two warring factions.
Sources said the Congress leadership is likely to hold a meeting in Delhi on May 25 to find a resolution to the vexing crisis in the party’s Rajasthan unit before Rahul Gandhi leaves for the US on May 28. Pilot has given an ultimatum that if the state government does not act on his demands by May 30, he would launch a state-wide protest. This has made Congress leaders scramble for a face-saving formula to keep the young leader in the party.
Pilot had articulated his three demands at the end of his five-day Jan Sangharsh Yatra on May 15 – an inquiry into corruption charges against the previous Raje government, an overhaul of RPSC that has become notorious for paper leaks, and compensation to youth affected by papers leaks – and set the May 30 deadline. Pilot had gone to Delhi after his yatra and returned to the state on Sunday night.
Congress in-charge for Rajasthan SS Randhawa has said that Pilot’s threat has to be handled by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge. He has said that the party will discuss all the issues in Delhi soon.
While Pilot has been insisting that his demands concern the state government and not the party, Gehlot has been maintaining a stoic silence on the issue. Whenever the media asked him about it, the CM said that his priority and focus now is the ongoing rahat camps.
Meanwhile, the Pilot camp seems divided on what action to be taken next. While the young lot in his camp are egging him on to break away from Congress and chart an independent path, seniors have been insisting that Pilot should not go out but fight within the party. All eyes are now on the party high command’s efforts to bring about a truce between the two warring factions.
