Infighting within Cong cause of concern ahead of Yatra in Raj
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The Bharat Jodo Yatra of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will pass through Rajasthan in the chilly days of December, but the political climate within the party is tense as leaders who support former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot demand answers to current problems.
Gurjar leader Vijay Singh Bainsla has dared the party to organise the yatra without resolving outstanding issues in the community he belongs to, despite ongoing infighting between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Pilot camps.
To counter the “Bharat Jodo Yatra” and put the Gehlot government in the corner as it approaches the end of its fourth year next month, the opposition BJP is preparing to launch its “Jan Akrosh Movement” on November 29.
According to a state party official, the Yatra will enter Madhya Pradesh on November 23 in the morning.
The yatra will arrive in Jhalawar, Rajasthan, from Madhya Pradesh during the first week of December.
According to party sources, the yatra would travel through 18 assembly districts, 12 of which are held by Congress.
Communities from the Gurjar and Meena ethnic groups dominate a number of the constituencies. Govind Singh Dotasra, the head of the Pradesh Congress Committee, has nevertheless voiced optimism about the success of the yatra.
Following the party’s victory in the 2018 assembly elections, a power struggle between Gehlot and Pilot over the chief minister’s chair erupted, sparking two political crises in the state. In July 2020, one broke out when Pilot and the MLAs who supported him rebelled against Gehlot. The other occurred this year in September when Gehlot-aligned MLAs rebelled against the party high command’s improbable decision to appoint Pilot as the new chief minister while Gehlot was running for the position of Congress president.
Ajay Maken, a senior party leader who travelled to Jaipur on September 25 with Mallikarjun Kharge to host the CLP meeting, has stated that he does not want to serve as the Rajasthan in charge going forward.
He recently wrote to the party president, citing the events of September 25, when Gehlot supporters organised a separate gathering at the home of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal, which prevented the CLP meeting from happening.
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