{"id":324646,"date":"2020-07-14T08:42:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T08:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324646"},"modified":"2020-07-14T08:42:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T08:42:41","slug":"sachin-pilot-sacked-as-rajasthan-deputy-cm-state-congress-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sachin-pilot-sacked-as-rajasthan-deputy-cm-state-congress-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Sachin Pilot sacked as Rajasthan Deputy CM, State Congress Chief"},"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-324647 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sachin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/sachin.jpg 477w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/sachin-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/>The Congress on Tuesday sacked Sachin Pilot as the Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister and the state party chief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Along with Sachin Pilot, two other state cabinet ministers who had joined the Pilot camp have also been removed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Education Minister Govind Singh Dostra has been made the new party chief, said Randeep Sujrewala during a press briefing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision to sack the rebel leader was announced after Pilot skipped a second meeting of the Rajasthan MLAs called on Tuesday morning. Several Congress leaders had appealed to him and his MLAs to attend today\u2019s 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;\">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;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Tuesday sacked Sachin Pilot as the Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister and the state party chief. Along with Sachin Pilot, two other state cabinet ministers who had joined the Pilot camp have also been removed. Education Minister Govind Singh Dostra has been made the new party chief, said Randeep Sujrewala during a press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324647,"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\/324646"}],"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=324646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324648,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324646\/revisions\/324648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}