Congress Tuesday sacked Sachin Pilot as Rajasthan deputy CM and state unit chief, fuelling speculation that Pilot might join the BJP. Pilot had skipped key party meetings.
In the seven months of MVA govt, Sena, NCP & Congress have had many issues with each other, with much of the disenchantment centred on Uddhav’s ‘unilateral functioning’.
The decision to sack Sachin Pilot as deputy CM & Rajasthan Congress chief came two days after he mounted an open rebellion against the Gehlot government.
Rajasthan BJP chief Satish Poonia says party will be happy if Congress rebel Sachin Pilot joins, but the final decision rests with the central leadership.
BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia said there was rampant corruption in the former Congress govt in Madhya Pradesh but refused to speak about Congress crisis in Rajasthan.
Hardeep Puri says a Congress leader asked for Priyanka Gandhi to be allowed to stay on at 35, Lodhi Estate, but she says she’ll vacate before 1 August deadline.
Speaking to ThePrint, BJP vice-president and party’s Rajya Sabha MP from Rajasthan Om Prakash Mathur says CM Ashok Gehlot is holding party MLAs captive.
I am very sad that horse trading was going on. It is for the first time in the country that democracy is under such grave threat, Rajasthan CM Gehlot added.
Consider Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar’s duet ‘Chhod Do Aanchal’. The sequence was set in a flower garden, and the girl’s bashfulness was not even remotely relatable to a cabaret dancer.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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