Live to Die Another Day
The month-long political drama in Rajasthan, with the fate of the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government hanging tantalisingly in the balance, came to an end on August 10, after peace talks in Delhi featuring the disaffected former deputy CM Sachin Pilot, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his sister and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi. Pilot said he was “committed to working in the interest of the party and the Congress government in Rajasthan” while party president Sonia Gandhi has promised a three-member committee to address the issues raised by Pilot and his band of 18 rebel MLAs. Congress sources say the committee will have Priyanka, party treasurer Ahmed Patel and organisational secretary K.C. Venugopal, but there’s no official word yet.
The party, however, made it quite clear that neither would Gehlot be removed as chief minister—Pilot’s original demand and the trigger for the revolt—nor would Pilot get back the positions he has been stripped of, including
