Rajasthan Political Crisis LIVE Updates: Pro-Pilot posters in CM hometown

Even as Congress termed the boycott by MLAs close to Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot "gross indiscipline", it is learned that the party is scrambling to salvage the situation and has reached out to the state leadership. The party brass is in a dilemma owing to the AICC presidential election, for which Gehlot is the top contender.

First-time Congress MLA Divya Maderna, scion of the Maderna political family, on Monday said that the condition put forth for the CLP resolution by Gehlot-loyalist MLAs was tantamount to party indiscipline. She said that in the past, too, AICC observers' meetings with MLAs were held individually, never in groups. "In 2018, Avinash Pande and KC Venugopal met the MLAs individually and no one pressured to meet them in groups," Divya said.

Amid the power struggle in Rajasthan, a number of hoardings have come up across the city - which is CM Ashok Gehlot's hometown - that read "Naye Yug ki Taiyari (Getting ready for a new era)".

Amid the crisis in Rajasthan, the rebuff from the Gehlot camp stands in stark contrast to the ease with which Congress replaced Amarinder Singh as the chief minister of Punjab last year, underscoring the growing belief that an ever-weakening Congress would leave the leadership vulnerable to state satraps with hold over local units.

Minister and Ashok Gehlot loyalist Shanti Dhariwal alleged a “100%conspiracy” against the CM by Ajay Maken and Sachin Pilot. Accusing Maken of approaching MLAs to campaign for Pilot as the next CM, Dhariwal said he had proof to back his allegation.https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/getting-mlas-to-switch-was-makens-pilot-project-mantri/articleshow/94463926.cms