Congress conundrum: Gehlot stays closeted together with his confidantes at Jaipur; delays assembly Sonia

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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot remained closeted together with his confidantes in Jaipur on Wednesday thereby delaying his assembly with Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi by a day whereas Rahul Gandhi contiued together with his Bharat Jodo Yatra.

Gehlot was initially scheduled to depart Jaipur at 5.30 PM on Wednesday. But his departure was delayed. “The Chief Minister is going to Delhi at 5-5.30 pm today to express the feelings of 102 MLAs, as their guardian, with the party leadership and organisation,” cabinet minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas informed reporters after a gathering with the chief minister.

Besides Khachariyawas, Assembly Speaker C P Joshi, PCC president Govind Singh Dotasra, Minister Shanti Dhariwal, and Mahesh Joshi additionally met the chief minister.

Gehlot reached Delhi late on Wednesday late evening. He is predicted to fulfill Sonia as we speak.
Gehlot seems to be on the offensive regardless of the High Command reportedly bracing as much as crack the whip on Gehlot loyalists’ and ministers Shanti Dhariwal and Mahesh Joshi. The two spearheaded the protest towards signing the decision authorising Sonia Gandhi to nominate a brand new Chief Minister after Gehlot recordsdata the nomination papers for the get together presidential polls. Gehlot and his loyalists are figjting tooth and nail the excessive command’s transfer to make Sachin Pilot as Rajasthan Chief Minister if Gehlot goes on to turn out to be get together president.

Gehlot just isn’t averse to giving up chief ministership and coming into the presidential race. But he doesn’t need to hand over cost within the state to Pilot. He says he would hand over the chief ministership to anybody from the 102 MLAs who had stayed loyal to the get together when Pilot had walked out, however not the latter.

As suspense over whether or not or not Gehlot would comply with resign from the publish of chief minister to file the nomination continues, names of many Congress leaders who’re doubtless aspirants for the publish have began doing the rounds. Among them are the get together’s prime Dalit leaders together with, chief of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, AICC common secretary Mukul Wasnik, former Maharashtra chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, and former Haryana president of Congress Kumari Selja.

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Gandhi household loyalists Ambika Soni, who is taken into account near Sonia Gandhi, and former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Digvijaya Singh, who shares an in depth private equation with Rahul Gandhi, are additionally among the many frontrunners. Party treasurer Pawan Kumar Bansal’s identify can be being talked about as a attainable contender for the publish after he took a nomination kind from the Congress workplace.

On Wednesday, Sonia Gandhi consulted senior get together leaders Ambika Soni and A Okay Antony, who was known as from Kerala the place he’s main a retired life, on the Rajasthan disaster. She was suggested to fulfill Gehlot one final time to try to iron out the variations.

The two central observers – Ajay Maken and Mallikarjun Kharge – have shielded Gehlot of their report after getting back from Jaipur the place they weren’t in a position to meet the get together MLAs loyal to the chief minister. These MLAs are against the management’s plan to switch Gehlot together with his former deputy Sachin Pilot and refused to signal a decision authorising the get together president to decide on Gehlot’s successor.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot remained closeted together with his confidantes in Jaipur on Wednesday thereby delaying his assembly with Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi by a day whereas Rahul Gandhi contiued together with his Bharat Jodo Yatra.

Gehlot was initially scheduled to depart Jaipur at 5.30 PM on Wednesday. But his departure was delayed. “The Chief Minister is going to Delhi at 5-5.30 pm today to express the feelings of 102 MLAs, as their guardian, with the party leadership and organisation,” cabinet minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas informed reporters after a gathering with the chief minister.

Besides Khachariyawas, Assembly Speaker C P Joshi, PCC president Govind Singh Dotasra, Minister Shanti Dhariwal, and Mahesh Joshi additionally met the chief minister.

Gehlot reached Delhi late on Wednesday late evening. He is predicted to fulfill Sonia as we speak.
Gehlot seems to be on the offensive regardless of the High Command reportedly bracing as much as crack the whip on Gehlot loyalists’ and ministers Shanti Dhariwal and Mahesh Joshi. The two spearheaded the protest towards signing the decision authorising Sonia Gandhi to nominate a brand new Chief Minister after Gehlot recordsdata the nomination papers for the get together presidential polls. Gehlot and his loyalists are figjting tooth and nail the excessive command’s transfer to make Sachin Pilot as Rajasthan Chief Minister if Gehlot goes on to turn out to be get together president.

Gehlot just isn’t averse to giving up chief ministership and coming into the presidential race. But he doesn’t need to hand over cost within the state to Pilot. He says he would hand over the chief ministership to anybody from the 102 MLAs who had stayed loyal to the get together when Pilot had walked out, however not the latter.

As suspense over whether or not or not Gehlot would comply with resign from the publish of chief minister to file the nomination continues, names of many Congress leaders who’re doubtless aspirants for the publish have began doing the rounds. Among them are the get together’s prime Dalit leaders together with, chief of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, AICC common secretary Mukul Wasnik, former Maharashtra chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, and former Haryana president of Congress Kumari Selja.

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Gandhi household loyalists Ambika Soni, who is taken into account near Sonia Gandhi, and former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Digvijaya Singh, who shares an in depth private equation with Rahul Gandhi, are additionally among the many frontrunners. Party treasurer Pawan Kumar Bansal’s identify can be being talked about as a attainable contender for the publish after he took a nomination kind from the Congress workplace.

On Wednesday, Sonia Gandhi consulted senior get together leaders Ambika Soni and A Okay Antony, who was known as from Kerala the place he’s main a retired life, on the Rajasthan disaster. She was suggested to fulfill Gehlot one final time to try to iron out the variations.

The two central observers – Ajay Maken and Mallikarjun Kharge – have shielded Gehlot of their report after getting back from Jaipur the place they weren’t in a position to meet the get together MLAs loyal to the chief minister. These MLAs are against the management’s plan to switch Gehlot together with his former deputy Sachin Pilot and refused to signal a decision authorising the get together president to decide on Gehlot’s successor.