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Political toss favored Gehlot- Congress fires Sachin Pilot in a bid to save its rule in the state!

By alagu, 14 July, 2020
India, Rajasthan, Congress, Politics

Amid the ongoing political crisis and deepening tensions in Rajasthan after Deputy Chief Minister of the Congress-ruled state Sachin Pilot raised the banner of revolt against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, the Congress high command has, on Tuesday, said that dissented leader Sachin Pilot has been removed from the post of Gehlot's deputy, whom the former considered as his potential successor. 

While addressing the reporters on Tuesday in Jaipur, Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala put out the developments which have shown no consensus were reached between the dissented camps. Surjewala said that Sachin Pilot was removed as Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan and the latter was also removed as the Chief of Rajasthan state Congress party. 

 

The development of removing Sachin Pilot has come after the revolted leader and his supporters skipped the second meeting of Congress Legislature Party that was held on Tuesday at Fairmont Hotel in Jaipur, where the MLAs supporting Gehlot's government have been camped. The Chief Minister has called the dissented leader and his supporters to attend the meeting to resolve the issues.

However, Sachin Pilot and his camps stayed off from the reach and skipped the meeting which escalated the tensions. By breaking the news, Surjewala said that the Congress party has decided to remove Sachin Pilot from the post of Deputy Chief Minister and the party has also removed two-state ministers Vishvender Singh and Ramesh Meena from the cabinet as these two ministers have rebelled along with Sachin Pilot. 

Surjewala further stated that Pilot and some of his associates are conspiring to topple the Congress government in the state that was elected by eight crore Rajashthan people. According to the reports, Ashok Gehlot has convened the Congress Legislature Party meeting on Tuesday at the Fairmont Hotel. The meeting was attended by 102 Congress MLAs and the legislators unanimously demanded that Sachin Pilot should be removed from the party.

 

The attendance of the lawmakers shown Gehlot has berthed maximum numbers to prove his majority in the state assembly and the Gehlot's camp has said that two CPM MLAs and 8-9 MLAs who are in Sachin Pilot's camp have been in touch with the Chief Minister and assured their support to the government, claiming that Gehlot's government would survive amid the revolt. 

After having enough numbers and hope that his rule will survive, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has, after the conclusion of the meeting, met with Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra on Tuesday during which Gehlot informed the Governor about the decision of removing three ministers including his deputy Sachin Pilot. Upon the decision, Governor Mishra has accepted Ghelot's proposal to remove Sachin Pilot as Deputy CM and Vishvender Singh and Ramesh Meena as the cabinet ministers. 

 

After knowing the development that he was removed, Sachin Pilot took to Twitter said that' Truth Can be Disturbed, Not Defeated' and he also changed his bio on Twitter, which currently reads as MLA from Tonk. Sachin Pilot was sacked from the party hours after the release of the video which showed 16 MLAs of the Pilot's camp sitting together in a closed circle. The video went viral on Social Media.

MLA Mukesh Bhakar of Pilot's camp said that Loyalty in Congress means Ashok Gehlot's slavery. On Sunday, Sachin Pilot said that he has the support of 30 MLAs and he declared Gehlot's government as a minority government and on Monday, Pilot and his camp quitted attending the first CLP meet in Gehlot's residence and the after the meeting, the MLAs supporting Gehlot were ferried to Fairmont Hotel in Jaipur. 

 

Speaking for the first time after sacking his deputy, Ashok Gehlot said that there is nothing in Sachin Pilot's hands and called the show is being run by the BJP and the same team which took Madhya Pradesh from Congress has been working in Rajasthan. State BJP President said that 'people are angry and disappointed with the Congress government and BJP will decide the strategy based on the situation'. The Congress party named Rajasthan Education Minister Govind Singh Dotasra as the President of the Rajasthan Congress party. It was strongly speculated that Sachin Pilot will join BJP and topple the Congress government. However, ANI reported quoting the sources which said he won't join BJP as most of his supporters are against the saffron camp and he might float a new party.

Must-read: Gehlot vs Pilot: Congress gets back to the resort politics- Is the party losing Rajasthan?

 

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