{"id":303695,"date":"2018-10-03T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T08:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303695"},"modified":"2018-10-03T08:44:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T08:44:01","slug":"rajasthan-sachin-pilot-challenges-vasundhara-raje-in-upcoming-assembly-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-sachin-pilot-challenges-vasundhara-raje-in-upcoming-assembly-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan: Sachin Pilot challenges Vasundhara Raje in upcoming assembly elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-sachin-pilot-challenges-vasundhara-raje-in-upcoming-assembly-elections\/sachin-pilot\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303696\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303696 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sachin-pilot-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/sachin-pilot-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/sachin-pilot-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/sachin-pilot-696x551.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/sachin-pilot-531x420.jpg 531w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/sachin-pilot.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Rajasthan Congress Chief Sachin Pilot on Tuesday alleged that the farmers in the state were dying but Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje was busy in her &#8216;Gaurav Yatra&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While addressing a public meeting in Sangod town of Kota district, Pilot said the Raje is a lioness, but her biggest hunt is farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe moong daal is being sold at Rs 125 per kg, the prices of petrol and diesel are skyrocketing while the farmers were not able to sell their crop at the government-support price,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 41-year-old, on the occasion, acknowledged that he certainly had to learn a lot, but in politics, he would give Vasundhara Raje such a defeat in the upcoming assembly elections that she would not be able to forget it for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former ministers Bhanwar Lal Meghwal, Bharat Singh, Shanti Dhariwal among others were also present at the event and addressed the public function.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pilot said that Raje has lost a good opportunity as she was having a chance to develop the state because her party was in power in the Centre too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2018 are likely to be held at the end of this year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan Congress Chief Sachin Pilot on Tuesday alleged that the farmers in the state were dying but Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje was busy in her &#8216;Gaurav Yatra&#8217;. While addressing a public meeting in Sangod town of Kota district, Pilot said the Raje is a lioness, but her biggest hunt is farmers. \u201cThe moong daal is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2560,2014],"tags":[453,236,5406,1478,5405,2562,5407,3218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303698,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303695\/revisions\/303698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}