Senior Rajasthan Congess leader Sachin Pilot has arrived in Delhi today, this comes after his public protest yesterday, which he took up defying the party against the Ashok Gehlot government.

The former deputy chief minister is likely to meet the Congress senior leadership during his visit. While there is still not a confirmation received from the party sources regarding any such agenda on Pilot’s visit but chances seem high.

Pilot sat on a fast protesting against the incumbent government in the Rajasthan in which he served as the deputy chief minister for almost two years.

The protest that didn’t drew any other senior members of Rajasthan Congress or any leader holding power in the state but was packed with Pilot’s supporters from across the state, was meant to charge press against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his government for being silent on corruption charges against latter’s predecessor Vasundhara Raje.

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The Congress on other hand had issued a grim warning to avoid any such action that would be deemed as an anti party activity but Pilot who chose to defy, took up the protest.

CM Gehlot is holding a press conference today, speculations are that he might be responding back to Pilot before the media.

Pilot during his day long fast told to media that they assured people that action would be taken against the corruption against the previous BJP’s Raje government and that he wanted the Gehlot government to take actions but he couldn’t see it in the last four years.

He further added his fight against this corruption will continue.

Congress which has his government in just a few number of states and Rajasthan which goes to polls later this year, where it hopes for a comeback is dwindling with public embarrassment as its two big guns of the state are in tussle for a long time now.

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Four Army personnel were killed in a firing incident inside a military station in Punjab’s Bathinda on early Wednesday morning. However, the police and intel sources have said that this was not a terrorist attack but a case of fratricide.

According to reports, a gunman in civilian clothes opened fire inside the officers’ mess of Bathinda Military Station during at around 4:35 am on Wednesday morning, leaving four army personnel belonging to the 80 Medium Regiment, dead.

A report quoted Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Bathinda GS Khurana as saying that preliminary intelligence suggests that the firing incident was a case of fratricide and not a terrorist attack

In a statement the said South western command of the Indian Army said that Station Quick Reaction Teams were activated after the firing incident during early hours of Wednesday morning and the area has been cordoned and sealed off.

They said that four casualties have been reported in the incident and search operations are underway, adding that further details are being ascertained.

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Meanwhile, Additional director general of police (ADGP) Surinder Pal Singh Parmar said there was no terror of fidayeen angle in the incident and search is underway for two people with weapons.

Reports quoting sources within the Punjab police and intelligence agencies have also stated the same that the incident does not have a terror angle and instead prima facie, appears to be a case of fratricide.

As per reports, the firing incident took place in an artillery unit of the Bathinda Military Station where families of the Army personnel also reside.

A report by India Today, quoting sources in the Punjab Police say that some Army men may be behind the firing incident as recently an INSAS rifle along with 28 cartridges went “missing” from the artillery unit’s guard room.

According to reports, military personnel are combing the area current and all entry gates of the Army Cantt in Bathinda have been shut to outsiders, including the police.

More details are awaited.

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Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena to contest polls, launch outreach campaign in BJP-ruled Goa

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena will contest elections and soon launch an outreach program in ally BJP-ruled Goa, a senior leader of the party said on Tuesday.

Shiv Sena leader Anandrao Adsul told newsmen said that in the past, the undivided Shiv Sena lacked conviction when it contested the elections in the coastal state and the party needs to work at grassroots level to expand their base in the BJP-ruled state.

Adsul said the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction) will fight the next Goa elections “with conviction” and a new beginning but before that happens, Goa residents need to be convinced that they (Shiv Sena) are here to work for them and thus an outreach program will soon be launched to revamp the party’s image in the state.

The Sena leader said that several local leaders have shown interest to join the Shiv Sena.

The former MP alleged that in the past, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut and others who were named in-charge of party affairs in Goa, were allegedly influenced monetary considerations while giving poll tickets to candidates in the state.

Sanjay Raut or any other leader from the Shiv Sena (UBT) had not responded to Adsul’s allegations when this report was filed.

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In February this year, the Election Commission allotted the Shiv Sena name and the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol to the Eknath Shinde-led faction after the split in the party last year.

Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena is currently in power in Maharashtra in alliance in with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

In related news, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut, last week alleged that the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government is running the state like the notorious Mumbai underworld of yesteryears.

Talking to reporters, Sanjay Raut, a close associate of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray alleged that criminals and the corrupt are being protected and shielded by the government.

Raut also claimed that Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis are “running their gangs” like how the underworld used to operate from pockets of Thane and Mumbai during those infamous years.

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