Summary:
Contrary to Pilot’s claims over 100 Congress MLAs attended the legislative party meeting on Monday morning and reposed their faith in CM Gehlot’s leadership.
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After Sachin Pilot’s rebellion against the state’s Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Congress workers removed Pilot’s posters from party office in Jaipur on Monday.
Sachin Pilot other being state’s Deputy Chief Minister is also Congress state party president.
On Sunday evening, Pilot had announced that he would not attend the party legislature meeting called by CM Ashok Gehlot the following day and claimed that the Congress-led government had been reduced to a minority.
Pilot maintained that he enjoyed the support of 30 members of the 200-member Rajasthan legislative assembly (MLAs).
Contrary to Pilot’s claims over 100 Congress MLAs attended the legislative party meeting on Monday morning and reposed their faith in CM Gehlot’s leadership.
The Congress had issued a whip to all its MLAs, stating that the attendance of the meeting at CM’s official residence was mandatory.
Amid the backdrop of the high-voltage political drama in Rajasthan, a re-run of a similar rebellion in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh in March that had led to the toppling of the Kamal Nath-led government, the banners with Pilot’s pictures were removed from the boundary wall of the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) office in Jaipur on Monday morning.
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