NEW DELHI: Prominent members of the Congress on Thursday will discuss and deliberate upon the party's strategy and readiness for the upcoming elections in the state.The leaders will also seek to resolve the tussle between chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former party chief Rahul Gandhi, AICC in-charge of state Sukhjinder Randhawa, Pilot and other senior leaders from Rajasthan will attend the meeting at the party headquarters in the national capital at 11 am.In a bid to defuse the tensions, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi had held marathon discussions with Gehlot and Pilot separately in May.
They had later posed for photographs at Kharge's 10 Rajaji Marg residence.After the meetings, the party had said Gehlot and Pilot have agreed to fight the upcoming assembly elections unitedly and have left all issues to be resolved by the party high command.Gehlot and Pilot have been engaged in a power tussle since the Congress formed government in the state in 2018.
In 2020, Pilot led a revolt against the Gehlot government after which he was removed from the posts of the party's state unit president and deputy chief minister.Last year, an attempt by the high command to effect a leadership change in Rajasthan had failed after Gehlot loyalists dug their heels in and did not allow a legislature party meeting to take place.(With agency inputs)