{"id":307006,"date":"2018-12-14T11:25:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307006"},"modified":"2018-12-14T11:25:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:25:56","slug":"rajasthan-ashok-gehlot-to-be-next-chief-minister-sachin-pilot-deputy-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-ashok-gehlot-to-be-next-chief-minister-sachin-pilot-deputy-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan: Ashok Gehlot to be next Chief Minister, Sachin Pilot Deputy CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307011 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/rahul-gandhi-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/rahul-gandhi-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/rahul-gandhi-585x420.jpg 585w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/rahul-gandhi.jpg 673w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Senior Congress leader\u00a0Ashok Gehlot\u00a0has been chosen as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan while Sachin Pilot has been given the charge of deputy chief minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The development came after the two leaders met Congress president Rahul Gandhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The united colours of Rajasthan,&#8221; Gandhi said in the tweet along with a photograph of the two warring leaders from Rajasthan with himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Senior party leaders Avinash Pande, K C Venugopal and Jitendra Singh were also present during the meeting on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi, who met both the leaders at his residence on Thursday, made his final decision today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress tweeted, \u201c@ashokgehlot51 a stalwart of the Congress party has been elected CM of Rajasthan. We wish him the best as he takes on this new appointment with vigour, sincerity &amp; a commitment to our democratic values.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress also congratulated Sachin pilot for being chosen as a new Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOur best wishes to Shri @Sachin Pilot, the new Deputy CM of Rajasthan. A young &amp; dedicated leader, he is sure to bring development, peace &amp; happiness to the people of Rajasthan,\u201d Congress tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Congress leader\u00a0Ashok Gehlot\u00a0has been chosen as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan while Sachin Pilot has been given the charge of deputy chief minister. The development came after the two leaders met Congress president Rahul Gandhi. &#8220;The united colours of Rajasthan,&#8221; Gandhi said in the tweet along with a photograph of the two warring leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2560,2014],"tags":[1578,1380,579,1478,2562],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307006"}],"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=307006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307012,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307006\/revisions\/307012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}