Jaipur/New Delhi: The Congress top brass is going all out to placate Sachin Pilot, who has declared open rebellion against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. While Priyanka Gandhi has called him up for times since Monday, P Chidambaram reached out to the Rajasthan deputy CM again late last night, sources said.
Sources told News18 that the second Congress meeting has been especially called to give Pilot "another chance". The party has called another meeting of legislators at 10 am today. However, the deputy CM remains incommunicado.
Pilot, who is in Delhi, has not been taking calls of many party leaders. AICC general secretary in-charge for Rajasthan Avinash Pande has said that Pilot has not been responding to calls and messages have been left with him.
Besides Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and Chidambaram, other Congress leaders who are learnt to have spoken with Pilot are Ahmed Patel and AICC general secretary K C Venugopal.
Pilot has raised a banner of revolt against Gehlot, after the special operations group (SOG) of Rajasthan Police sent a notice to him for appearing before it in the case involving "horse-trading" of MLAs in the state.
The SOG has registered an FIR in this regard and has also sent notices to the chief minister, chief whip of Congress and some ministers and MLAs.
Pilot has claimed that the Ashok Gehlot government is in minority and that he has the support of over 30 MLAs in the 200-member Assembly.
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