'Accept Gehlot's resignation, spare Rajasthan': BJP tells Sonia Gandhi amid Cong crisis

On Saturday, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot came under fire over his mission that his resignation letter has been in possession of Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Latching on to this, Rajasthan BJP chief Satish Poonia attributed  plight of state to confusion over leership.

Maintaining that farmers, youths, Dalits and oppressed of Rajasthan are in distress, he appealed to Gandhi to accept resignation of Gehlot with immediate effect and spare people of state from furr agony. 

"w we came to kw why governance of Rajasthan is so b. Chief Minister himself is accepting that his resignation is with Sonia Gandhi. way in which people of state were misled by vent of Congress government in 2018, people of Rajasthan will clear this confusion in 2023," Rajasthan BJP president Satish Poonia opined. 

dressing an event a day earlier, Gehlot said, Ashok Gehlot said, “My resignation is permanently with Sonia Gandhi. When Congress decides to change chief minister, one will get a hint. deliberation will be done on changing Chief Minister. Congress high command is independent to take decisions and I would appeal to everyone to t pay heed to rumors as it affects governance.”

Leership tussle in Rajasthan

Gehlot's remarks came in wake of speculation about a change of guard in Rajasthan after Sachin Pilot met Congress president on April 21. As per sources, Pilot gave an ultimatum to Gandhi to change leership in state citing that party will lose all polls under Gehlot.

This assumes significance as Gehlot failed to bring back Congress to power for second consecutive time in 2003 as well as 2013 when he was CM, with Vasundhara Raje leing BJP to a victory on both occasions.

Speaking to media after meeting, Sachin Pilot said, "Rajasthan is a state where every 5 yrs re's a government change and I think if we do right things like we have started to do as a Committee of AICC was formed two years ago, through which some steps were taken in right direction. We need to furr move in that direction so that Congress wins 2023 elections in Rajasthan".

He h fallen out of favour after briefly leing a rebellion in July 2020 after which he was sacked as Deputy CM and Rajasthan Congress chief.