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Thursday, October 2, 2025
TopicAshok Gehlot

Topic: Ashok Gehlot

BJP says Sachin Pilot is welcome to join party, wants Gehlot to face floor test right away

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.

Sachin Pilot is playing into the hands of BJP, alleges Ashok Gehlot

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.

MLAs loyal to Sachin Pilot demand floor test to ‘expose’ Ashok Gehlot govt’s strength

Amid growing political tension in Rajasthan, the Ashok Gehlot camp has claimed that 109 MLAs, both of Congress and others, are in support of the government.

Sachin Pilot sacked as Rajasthan Dy CM & state Congress chief, says ‘truth can’t be defeated’

OBC leader and Education Minister Govind Singh Dotsara is new state party chief. Congress leader Randeep Surjewala says BJP trying to topple govt and Pilot has become a part of this conspiracy.

Shiv Sena targets BJP over Rajasthan politics, accuses it of encouraging horse trading

In its mouthpiece Saamana, the party asked BJP what it would achieve with the political misadventure in the "desert", and said this would turn the India's democracy into a desert.

No votes, ineffective Gandhis — larger malaise underlying Congress’ Gehlot-Pilot spat

In episode 521 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta talks about the fundamental contradiction within the Congress party — it is ruled by a strong but ineffective dynasty.

Congress looks for Modi as its foundation crumbles, and the Patel-Pilot project

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BJP is sceptical about Sachin Pilot’s numbers, says it’s ready to play a ‘Test match’

Leaders say BJP is watching the Rajasthan political drama closely, and believes the Gehlot-Pilot rift is deep, so it will have an opportunity to strike later.

Pilot-Gehlot spat: Congress worries, Scindia sympathises & Kaushik Basu sees a Trojan horse

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Gandhis step in to resolve Rajasthan crisis, Priyanka Vadra calls up Sachin Pilot 

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra listened to Sachin Pilot patiently as he said he was not being given his due and, instead, was at the receiving end of petty politics by Ashok Gehlot. 

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Finnish giant ICEYE to build signature radar microsatellites in India, offers full control to govt

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