{"id":324644,"date":"2020-07-14T06:18:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324644"},"modified":"2020-07-14T06:18:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:18:18","slug":"rajasthan-political-crisis-sachin-pilot-again-skips-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-political-crisis-sachin-pilot-again-skips-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan political crisis: Sachin Pilot again skips meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-303696 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sachin-pilot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/sachin-pilot.jpg 890w, 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\" sizes=\"(max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/>Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot has skipped the second meeting of Rajasthan MLAs called on Tuesday morning. Several Congress leaders had appealed to him and his MLAs to attend today&#8217;s CLP meet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The first meeting was also skipped by Sachin Pilot and his loyalist MLAs on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amid the political crisis in the state, Sachin Pilot-led Rajasthan Congress camp last night released a video showing around 16 MLAs sitting together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Sunday, Pilot claimed that he has the support of 30 MLAs and that the Ashok Gehlot government is in minority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Party state in-charge Avinash Pande today urged Pilot to attend the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I appeal to Sachin Pilot and all his fellow MLAs to attend today&#8217;s meeting of the legislature party. Expressing your faith in the ideology and values of the Congress, please make your presence felt and strengthen the hands of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi,&#8221; Pande said in a tweet<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sources claimed that Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Ahmed Patel, P Chidambaram and KC Venugopal have spoken to Sachin Pilot several times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala yesterday said that the party\u2019s doors are always open for Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot and his MLAs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIf anyone is upset in family, they should find a solution by sitting with members of the family. On behalf of Congress leadership, including Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, I convey that doors of Congress party are always open for Sachin Pilot or any member,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the 200-member Rajasthan Assembly, the Congress has 107 MLAs and the BJP 72. In the past, the Congress has claimed the support of 13 independents.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot has skipped the second meeting of Rajasthan MLAs called on Tuesday morning. Several Congress leaders had appealed to him and his MLAs to attend today&#8217;s CLP meet. The first meeting was also skipped by Sachin Pilot and his loyalist MLAs on Monday. Amid the political crisis in the state, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":303696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2560,2014],"tags":[1478,2562],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324644"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324645,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324644\/revisions\/324645"}],"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=324644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}