KNIVES AT THE READY
Dec 11, 2021
4 minutes
By Rohit Parihar
The Congress high command’s bid to put a united face on the recent reshuffle of the Rajasthan government’s council of ministers—the first in three years—appears to have failed. In recent weeks, members of the rival camps led by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot have openly hit out at each other.
On December 4, at an informal meeting of the council of ministers at chief minister Gehlot’s residence in Jaipur’s Civil Lines, the tension was palpable. The agenda for the meeting was to prepare for the party’s national rally, to be held in Jaipur on December 12 (initially to be held in Delhi, and shifted to Jaipur after the Delhi police denied
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