In an effort to find a middle ground between Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his bete noire Sachin Pilot, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge is scheduled to hold meetings with the two warring leaders on Monday in Delhi. As per a senior party leader familiar with the development, the Congress chief will hold separate meetings with the duo.
In an effort to broker a truce between Gehlot and Pilot, Congress has also roped in senior leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath.
Kharge’s proposed meetings come close on the heels of Pilot’s “ultimatum” that if three demands he made from the Gehlot government were not met by the end of this month, he would launch a state-wide agitation. Rajasthan’s former Deputy CM has asked for a high-level inquiry into the alleged scams that took place during the tenure of the former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje government, as one of his demands.
Meanwhile, the chief minister’s office has also released Gehlot’s programme confirming his visit to Delhi, where he will also lay the foundation stone of the Rajasthan House.
According to the senior leader, a meeting of the Congress top brass with all the state leaders was scheduled on May 26 but was later postponed. He said that now the high command will meet Gehlot and Pilot separately to bring them on one platform ahead of the assembly elections, which are due later this year.
Kharge was successful in bringing Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar together in Karnataka and the party now wants to try the same formula in Rajasthan, the senior leader said.
He also said that a few days ago a meeting of the Congress high command with the leaders of all poll-bound states, including Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana, was planned, which was postponed.
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