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Sachin Pilot Skips Rajasthan One-On-One With MLAs For State Polls As Feud Continues
Swarajya Staff
Apr 17, 2023, 08:55 PM | Updated 08:58 PM IST
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Sachin Pilot was on Monday (17 April) engaged in a public outreach programme on the outskirts of Jaipur, while the Congress was preparing for the upcoming assembly election.
Senior Congress leaders led by Gehlot were holding one-to-one meetings with members of legislative assembly (MLAs).
Pilot was on a solo outreach programme, so he was absent for the one-on-one MLA meeting scheduled in his assembly seat, Tonk.
Congress sources had told NDTV that Pilot would not join one-to-one discussions with Congress MLAs on Monday (17 April).
Sources close to Pilot, however, said it was nothing to worry about, since his engagement was planned before the party had scheduled the meetings, according to an NDTV report.
The former deputy chief minister is in the middle of a power struggle with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, his Congress party colleague in Rajasthan.
"I am not against any person or the Congress government here. This is against corruption which happened during Vasundhara Raje's time," Pilot told NDTV.
"I have been talking about this for a long time. When the (Rajasthan) government was three years old, I had written to the Chief Minister asking for his intervention, that we must investigate... Now with election just months away, I don't want people to come and say we made so much noise, but did nothing against corruption," he added.
Only recently, Pilot had criticised his government's inaction on corruption allegations against the previous Vasundhara Raje-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
Pilot addressed an event on Monday where he expressed disappointment at no action being taken despite writing letters and appealing to the party.
He urged the Rajasthan chief minister to take immediate action on his demands against corruption, as no progress had been made in a week.
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