Days after the crisis in the Rajasthan Congress, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday said that politics is about “multiplication and division”, and what is seen is rarely true and what is true is not seen. . The Chief Minister also took a jibe at the media, saying that some organizations run news on the basis of their point of view, which does not serve any purpose and also damages their credibility. “People have extraordinary common sense and they understand everything,” he told reporters.
“Politics is done by multiplication and division. In politics, sometimes, what is seen is not true and what is true is not seen,” he said at a press conference on ‘Rajasthan Invest’, Which will be held on 7th and 8th October. The political crisis in the state unfolded with the grand old party’s move to hold a Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting at the chief minister’s residence on September 25. The meeting was seen as an exercise to replace the chief minister before the election. Choose the party president for whom Gehlot was at the fore.
The party had sent AICC’s Rajasthan in-charge general secretary Ajay Maken and then Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge as observers for the CLP meeting. However, hours before the meeting, MLAs loyal to Gehlot held a parallel meeting at Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal’s residence against what they believed was a meeting to make Sachin Pilot the new chief minister.
The MLAs did not attend the CLP meeting and submitted their resignations to Speaker CP Joshi at his residence. He demanded that the party elect someone from among the 102 MLAs, who had supported Gehlot during the political crisis in July 2020, if he leaves office and becomes the party president. The 2020 rebellion against Gehlot was led by the then Deputy Chief Minister Pilot with 18 MLAs.
The CLP meeting did not take place. Four days later, Gehlot met party president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi and apologized to her for not passing the one-line resolution in the meeting. He took moral responsibility for the crisis and announced that he would not contest the presidential election.
After his return from Delhi, Gehlot has however indicated through his style of functioning that he will continue as chief minister, though an official decision is awaited.
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