{"id":307126,"date":"2018-12-17T06:44:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T06:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307126"},"modified":"2018-12-17T06:45:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T06:45:57","slug":"rajasthan-ashok-gehlot-took-oath-as-chief-minister-sachin-pilot-as-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-ashok-gehlot-took-oath-as-chief-minister-sachin-pilot-as-deputy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan: Ashok Gehlot took oath as Chief Minister, Sachin Pilot as deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-ashok-gehlot-took-oath-as-chief-minister-sachin-pilot-as-deputy\/gehlot-pilot\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307127\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307127 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gehlot-pilot-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/gehlot-pilot-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/gehlot-pilot-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/gehlot-pilot-696x499.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/gehlot-pilot-586x420.jpg 586w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/gehlot-pilot.jpg 1017w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/a>Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot took oath as Rajasthan Chief Minister and Rajasthan state Congress president Sachin Pilot was sworn in as deputy chief minister on Monday at the Albert Hall in Jaipur in a ceremony marked by the presence of senior Congress leaders and opposition figures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress president Rahul Gandhi, \u00a0former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attended the event along with JD(S)&#8217;s HD Deve Gowda, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, NCP&#8217;s Sharad Pawar, Senior Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-ashok-gehlot-took-oath-as-chief-minister-sachin-pilot-as-deputy\/rajasthan-swearing-in\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307128\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307128 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/rajasthan-swearing-in-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/rajasthan-swearing-in-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/rajasthan-swearing-in-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/rajasthan-swearing-in-696x501.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/rajasthan-swearing-in-583x420.jpg 583w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/rajasthan-swearing-in.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>Gehlot was first-elected to Parliament in 1980, and went on to win Lok Sabha elections four more times from Jodhpur\u2019s Sardarpura assembly constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pilot represented Dausa and Ajmer in the Lok Sabha in 2004 and 2009 and fought recently concluded assembly election for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BSP supremo Mayawati and SP\u2019s Akhilesh Yadav and West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee did not attend the swearing-in ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot took oath as Rajasthan Chief Minister and Rajasthan state Congress president Sachin Pilot was sworn in as deputy chief minister on Monday at the Albert Hall in Jaipur in a ceremony marked by the presence of senior Congress leaders and opposition figures.\u00a0 Congress president Rahul Gandhi, \u00a0former Prime Minister Manmohan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2560,2014],"tags":[1578,2475,579,1478,2562],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307126"}],"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=307126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307131,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307126\/revisions\/307131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}