Seething Rajasthan deputy CM believes efforts on to hound him out

NEW DELHI: Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot's ‘strike’ against Sachin Pilot has left the younger leader seething, who sees being asked to join a police investigation into an alleged BJP plot to topple the government as a provocative act intended to corner him by insinuating his role in the events.
The deputy CM, who set aside his claim for the top post reluctantly on the urging of the Congress leadership, is understood to be deeply unhappy with the special operations group, which is seen to have powers to tap phones and monitor movements, and the view in his camp is that the "targeting" cannot go on.
Pilot has responded to allegations of being a possible catalyst for defections that can facilitate in Rajasthan the BJP’s Madhya Pradesh-Karnataka model by saying that he has worked wholeheartedly to bring Congress to office in the desert state.