The Congress leadership and Gehlot supporters got into a standoff as a result, and the party high command requested a report from its party observers, Mallikarjun Kharge and Ajay Maken.
Digital Desk: The chief minister of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot said on Thursday that he will not be contesting for president of the Congress. Following the political crisis in Rajasthan, he met with Sonia Gandhi, the interim head of the Congress, at her home in Delhi.
He claimed that after the political crisis in Rajasthan broke out, he made the decision not to run in the elections. Following his resignation, Shashi Tharoor of Thiruvananthapuram and Digvijaya Singh, a former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, are the front-runners for the party's top position.
WHAT IS THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN RAJASTHAN?
After a political drama broke out in Rajasthan on Sunday night and 82 MLAs submitted their resignations to the assembly speaker, CP Joshi, Gehlot went to Delhi to meet Sonia Gandhi. If Gehlot gets the Congress presidential nomination, the MLAs will not support the choice of Sachin Pilot as the new chief minister.
The Congress leadership and Gehlot supporters got into a standoff as a result, and the party high command requested a report from its party observers, Mallikarjun Kharge and Ajay Maken.
Following the events of Sunday, there were rumours that Gehlot was upset with the Congress' top leadership, who wanted him to withdraw from the contest.
The observers, however, stated that Gehlot is not responsible for the state's crisis in their report to Sonia Gandhi.
Continue Reading
