New Delhi/Jaipur: Amid the political turmoil in Rajasthan, senior leaders of the Congress are keeping an eye on the legislature party meeting to be held in Jaipur on Monday.
The Senior Congress leaders are calling MLAs personally to have full attendance during the meet. The party has dispatched two leaders from Delhi, Ajay Maken, and Randeep Singh Surjewala, to report back the exact situation to the party high command.
Sources close to the Ashok Gehlot camp said that the numbers are with the Chief Minister, however, his Deputy Sachin Pilot in a late-night statement claimed that the government in Rajasthan has been in the minority after 30 MLAs promised allegiance to him.
The Congress leaders are anxious about the outcome and many hoped an amicable solution will be worked out to pacify Pilot. The Deputy Chief Minister is in Delhi after police served him a notice to investigate a complaint filed by the Congress under sedition charges.
Pilot is not responding to calls : Raj Cong in-charge
Ahead of the Congress legislature party meeting, party’s Rajasthan In-charge Avinash Pande has said that Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot is not responding to calls and has not been communicating.
Pande said the party wants to hear him out but “indiscipline will not be tolerated”.
Speaking over the phone Avinash Pande who is in Jaipur said: “I have tried to speak to Sachin Pilot and have even left messages for him but he has not replied.
“Nobody is above party and he has to face action like other MLAs.”
He said the party is ready to listen Pilot within set norms and “Indiscipline will not be tolerated, but I am hopeful he will turn up for the meeting”.
He said that the Congress President is ready to listen to each and every MLA from the party or alliance.
Meanwhile Sachin Pilot has said that the government in Rajasthan is in minority and in a late-night statement he said that he will not be attending the meet and now all eyes are on the legislature party meet.
And now, IT raids on Raj Cong leaders
The Rajasthan political crisis took a new turn on Monday when income tax investigators raided on premises belonging to people from Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s camp. Searches were underway in offices of veteran state Congress leaders, including Rajeev Arora and Dharmendra Chaudhary too. Unaccounted cash, jewelry, property papers, and lockers were seized. The team also reached Bhilwara and Jhalawad and carried out searches, officials said.
Congress has postponed its Legislature Party meeting by half an hour to 11 a.m. Around 74 MLAs have reached the Chief Minister’s Residence. Party Whip Mahesh Joshi said that the BJP is “misusing agencies for its self-fulfilling goals”.
