Pilot Vs Gehlot – Decision On Rajasthan Congress Crisis After Gujarat Election: Sources

The Congress march is scheduled to enter Jhalawar in Rajasthan from Madhya Pradesh in the first week of December while a decision on the Rajasthan Congress crisis is still awaited.

New Delhi: The decision on the Rajasthan Congress crisis will be taken after the Gujarat elections, senior sources in the party said.

This comes as Congress party's Bharat Jodo Yatra is set to enter Rajasthan in December and leaders supporting former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot are demanding solutions to existing issues.

According to news agency PTI, Gurjar leader Vijay Singh Bainsla has also dared the party to organise the yatra without resolving pending issues of the community he belongs to.

The Congress march is scheduled to enter Jhalawar in Rajasthan from Madhya Pradesh in the first week of December.

In nearly 20 days, it will traverse through Jhalawar, Kota, Sawai Madhopur, Dausa, and Alwar.

The infighting between incumbent CM Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Pilot started with the party's victory in the 2018 assembly elections over the matter of chief ministership. It has so far led to two full-blown political crises in the state.

In July 2020, Pilot and MLAs supporting him rebelled against Ashok Gehlot. Then recently in September this year, Congress MLAs loyal to the Chief Minister rebelled against the party high command's probable move to make Pilot the new chief minister when Gehlot was set to enter the race for the Congress president post.

Ahead of the yatra, party senior leader Ajay Maken came to Jaipur to hold the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting on September 25 along with Mallikarjun Kharge. He expressed his unwillingness to continue as the Rajasthan incharge.

In a letter to the party president recently, he cited the developments on September 25 when Gehlot loyalists held a separate meeting at the residence of Parliamentary Affairs minister Shanti Dhariwal, because of which the CLP meeting could not take place.

After the meeting, more than 90 MLAs, all Ashok Gehlot loyalists, submitted their resignations to assembly speaker CP Joshi.

The resignations have not been accepted so far and are pending with the speaker.

Rajasthan SC/ST Commission chairman and Pilot loyalist MLA Khiladi Lal Bairwa said Maken was pained because no action was taken against the leaders even after giving them notices. Bairwa urged the party high command to make necessary changes immediately, saying that will bring good results.

Assembly elections in the state will be held next year.

(With Agency Inputs)