Congress leader Sachin Pilot during his Jansangh Yatra in Ajmer, Thursday (PTI).
According to party sources, Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasara, co-incharge Qazi Muhammad Nizamuddin, Amrita Dhawan and Virendra Rathore will attend the meeting held this afternoon.
Even as Rajasthan Congress leader Sachin Pilot begins his Jan Sangharsh Pad Yatra from Ajmer to Jaipur, Rajasthan party in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa has called a meeting of his three co-in-charges and the state unit chief in Delhi on Friday . sources said.
According to party sources, Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasara, co-in-charge Qazi Muhammad Nizamuddin, Amrita Dhawan and Virendra Rathore will attend the meeting held this afternoon.
During the meeting, the leaders are expected to discuss the challenge posed by Pilot’s “Jan Sangharsh Yatra”.
Pilot on Thursday began a 125-km pada yatra (foot march) from Ajmer to Jaipur to raise issues of corruption and paper leak in government recruitment examinations.
The five-day visit is being seen as a strategy by Pilot to mount pressure on the party leadership just months ahead of crucial assembly elections in the desert state.
On Tuesday, the day former party chief Rahul Gandhi visited Rajasthan, Pilot rebuked Gehlot, saying their leader was Vasundhara Raje, not Sonia Gandhi.
Addressing a press conference in Jaipur, Pilot had said, “This fact has become clear from the chief minister’s speech at Dholpur day before yesterday.”
Pilot questioned Gehlot’s statement in which he “praised BJP leaders, but maligned the party’s own MPs and MLAs”.
On Sunday, Gehlot said that former chief minister Vasundhara Raje and two BJP leaders, Kailash Meghwal and Shobrani Kushwaha, helped save his government.
On Gehlot’s statement, Pilot said, ‘Gehlot should tell why his statement has two faces. On one hand they say that BJP was trying to topple the government and on the other hand they say that Raje was trying to save her government. What does he want to say?”
On 11 April, Pilot, who is also a former deputy chief minister, defied the party’s warning to observe a day-long fast, targeting Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot over “inaction” over alleged corruption when the BJP was earlier in power. Was.
Pilot and Gehlot are engaged in a bitter fight for power in the state Congress unit and the government.
Pilot is constantly raising the issue of no action being taken against the corrupt under the BJP rule.
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