Tension flared again in the Rajasthan Congress after party leader Sachin Pilot announced a day-long fast on Tuesday to press for a probe into corruption cases.
Pilot has alleged that the Ashok Gehlot-led government failed to investigate cases of alleged corruption during the BJP rule in Rajasthan.
Here are the top 10 updates from the Rajasthan Congress tussle:
- In the latest tussle in Rajasthan, Sachin Pilot alleged that the Gehlot government did not take any action against the BJP-led Vasundhara Raje government in a corruption case. Pilot said he had written to Gehlot on the issue on March 28 and November 2 last year but there was no response to his letters.
- Following this, Pilot has decided to observe a day-long fast at the martyr’s memorial on April 11 (Tuesday), the birth anniversary of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, who belonged to the Saini community. Gehlot is related.
- Since the formation of the Congress government in Rajasthan in December 2018, there has been a deadlock between Gehlot and Pilot over the post of Chief Minister.
- Congress is divided pilot And Gelhlot as of now. While a section of Congress leaders supported Pilot’s demand, others claimed it would cause great harm to the party in the upcoming election, especially when it is working on a strategy to repeat its government in the state.
- In July 2020, Pilot and a section of party MLAs openly rebelled Leadership change in state. This triggered a month-long political crisis which ended after assurance by the party high command to look into the issues raised by Pilot.
- The former deputy chief minister said that Congress leader Sonia Gandhi had given him the responsibility of the party in the state and he along with other leaders had opposed the wrong policies of the then BJP government headed by Vasundhara Raje.
- He said that the Congress as a responsible opposition raised the issue of corruption due to which the BJP was thrown out of power.
- After the rebellion of Pilot and 18 other MLAs in 2020, Gehlot used words like “traitor”, “nakra”, “worthless” for his former deputy and accused him of joining BJP leaders in plotting to topple the Congress government. accused of being
- Pilot’s demand to order an inquiry into the alleged mining scam and other corruption charges during the previous BJP government and to take action was supported by state cabinet minister Pratap Singh Khachariawas.
- Khachariawas was the Jaipur Congress president when Pilot was the PCC chief and was at the forefront of raising the issue of corruption with him.
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