Congress leader K.C. Venugopal. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Amid reports that the Congress leadership is in the final stages of working out a compromise formula between Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot, party general secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal on June 22 evening reached Jaipur. Mr. Venugopal is said … Read more
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot was born into a family of professional magicians in Jodhpur. | Photo Credit: PTI Terming himself as ‘Pratham Sewak‘ of the people of Jodhpur, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on June 4 said if the need arises he would earn money by performing magic tricks, but would not let the people … Read more
The Congress appeared to get its act right in Rajasthan this year, after a tumultuous 2020 when Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot and MLAs loyal to him rebelled against the leadership of CM Ashok Gehlot. In late 2021, the CM carried out a crucial part of the truce formula worked out by the central leadership … Read more
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday accused the Centre of being too stubborn to heed anyone else, including the Opposition. Counselling the Centre to shun the alleged arrogance “which does not last in politics”, Gehlot asserted that people understand everything and will teach it a lesson at an appropriate time. “There is a place … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and senior leader Rahul Gandhi have directed all Rajasthan Congress leaders to stop conducting postmortem through public statements and interviews on the issues that caused the recent rift, it is learnt. The leadership has given top priority for stability of the state government and state Congress unity, they said. … Read more