Sachin Pilot, in an apparent jibe at the Rajasthan government, said that he had "hoped" that the Ashok Gehlot administration would take action against those found involved in alleged corruption during the previous BJP regime.
The Congress leader and former Deputy Chief Minister wrote a letter to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday seeking a crop survey to estimate the loss of farmers due to cold and frost. Pilot met the farmers of Hanumangarh during his visit and took stock of the loss of mustard crop.
Amid the heavy backlash faced by the Congress government in Rajasthan over the paper leak case, All India Congress Commitee (AICC) national secretary and Rajasthan Seed Corporation Chairman Dheeraj Gurjar on Wednesday said that the perpetrators, involved in the paper leak were sacked immedia
While not naming the Rajasthan chief minister, Pilot, addressing an event in Jhunjhunu on Wednesday, said, "We welcome the government's decision to investigate the paper leaks case. However, it's hard to believe that no Congress leader or government official is not involved in the leaks."
Lashing out at the Narendra Modi government at the Centre on Monday, Congress leader and former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot said it has failed to fulfill the promises made to farmers and has, in fact, put them under severe stress through demonetisation and Goods and Services
The two-day Shivir will have eight sessions wherein state ministers will give presentations of their respective depts. The budget and implementation of various public schemes will be discussed.
The Congress has seen recurrent factionalism in the state with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and party leader Sachin Pilot at loggerheads over the issue of leadership in the state.
As the Bharat Jodo Yatra completed its Rajasthan leg and despite a presumed reconiciliatory meeting between chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot with Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, there seems to no sign of a "full stop" to the feud between Chief Minister and his former deputy.
Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday held a meeting with Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot presumably attempting reconciliation between the two senior Congress leaders. Answering questions from reporters while coming out of the meeting, Rahul said that good news would come soon.
As the Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra's Rajasthan leg resumed from Kalakho in Dausa on Sunday, slogans in support of Rajasthan's former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot raised again in the Gujjar community's leader's citadel.