New Delhi: Congress’s Common Secretary Ok.C. Venugopal’s assertion Tuesday that “there can be an amicable settlement for the Rajasthan affairs” has led to speculations about steps being taken to defuse the continuing political disaster within the desert state.
Venugopal reached Jaipur Tuesday to assessment preparations for Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra that’s scheduled to enter Rajasthan on 5 December.
Final week, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, in an interview to a tv channel, had referred to as his former deputy Sachin Pilot a traitor and a person who couldn’t, underneath any circumstance, succeed him to the chief minister’s chair.
This interview was preceded by an announcement from Vijay Bainsla, president of the Gurjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti — a group from which Pilot hails — threatening to disrupt Gandhi’s Kanyakumari to Kashmir march if the pending calls for of his group usually are not met. He had additionally requested for Pilot to be made chief minister.
Congress, nonetheless, could choose established order within the state until the excessive profile yatra leaves, a while within the third week of December. Sources within the Delhi Congress instructed ThePrint that the final temper of the get together management is to not rock the boat simply but.
“There is no such thing as a must take any choice immediately. Congress won’t take a look at it (management difficulty in Rajasthan) until the yatra is over, not less than in Rajasthan. Why ought to we succumb to the media attempting to find headlines?” a senior chief of the get together stated.
That is opposite to the impression given by Congress Common Secretary Jairam Ramesh lately that the get together was able to take robust choices on Rajasthan. Ramesh has been strolling alongside former president Rahul Gandhi within the yatra.
Some placatory statements, nonetheless, have additionally been made by the Congress management.
Throughout one in every of his interactions en route the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Gandhi stated each Gehlot and Pilot had been property for the get together.
Equally, whereas addressing an election rally in Gujarat’s Dadiapada Monday, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge had described Gehlot as “our favorite chief who’s working with all his coronary heart for the Gujarat elections”. Gehlot was current on the occasion too.
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‘No want for change at the moment’
The Bharat Jodo Yatra is scheduled to cowl 18 meeting constituencies throughout six districts of Rajasthan, over a interval of about 20 days.
Congress sources stated discussions on the Rajasthan disaster are prone to come up in “private discussions” between senior leaders when members of the get together’s steering committee meet on 4 December. The steering committee includes members of the Congress Working Committee.
“Gehlot is steering the election in Gujarat. In addition to, when the yatra enters Rajasthan he could be accountable for preparations to make sure clean passage. There is no such thing as a motive for that to be modified at this level of time,” stated a senior AICC chief.
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