Amidst the power tussle with CM Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot is demonstrating in Rajasthan on various issues of corruption. (file photo)
Former Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan Sachin Pilot had launched ‘Jan Sangharsh Yatra’ in Rajasthan last week to raise the issue of corruption.
Dissident Congress leader Sachin Pilot met the protesting wrestlers at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Friday. The meeting comes at a time when Pilot is protesting in Rajasthan over various issues of corruption amid a power tussle with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
“If justice is not done in time, it is injustice. Pilot said, why delay in doing justice to those who made us so proud.
#Watch , Congress leader Sachin Pilot reached Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to meet wrestlers protesting against WFI (Wrestling Federation of India) President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. pic.twitter.com/WprHbtY3G6– ANI (@ANI) May 19, 2023
India’s top wrestlers, including Vinesh Phogat, Olympic medalists Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, stage a sit-in at Jantar Mantar after BJP MP and WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh arrested for sexually assaulting seven female wrestlers are demanding to do.
Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala, who hails from Haryana, had also visited the protest site and met the wrestlers and expressed solidarity with their demands.
Meanwhile, in Rajasthan, Pilot, former deputy chief minister of Rajasthan, had last week launched a “Jan Sangharsh Yatra” to raise the issues of corruption and government recruitment exam paper leak.
Pilot began a foot march from Ajmer on Thursday, challenging CM Gehlot and top party leaders as assembly elections in Rajasthan near.
The march comes days after Gehlot accused the MLAs involved in the 2020 rebellion of taking money from the BJP. Pilot and 18 other Congress MLAs then demanded a change of leadership in Rajasthan.
In 2020, Pilot led an unsuccessful rebellion against the Gehlot government, following which he was removed from the posts of the party’s state unit president and deputy chief minister.
Ever since the party formed the government in the state in 2018, two strong Congress leaders in Rajasthan have been at loggerheads over the chief minister’s post.
