Sachin Pilot has been in Delhi with these deputies since the weekend.
New Delhi:
As the mystery deepens over the whereabouts of Rajasthan’s 18 congressional lawmakers, who sided with Sachin Pilot in his open revolt against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, a rebel MP told GalacticGaming that they were not going to the Karnataka led by the BJP, as speculated everywhere in the evening.
“Not at all,” a senior Team Pilot lawmaker told GalacticGaming when asked if they would go to Karnataka during a replay of the Madhya Pradesh coup. However, he was unwilling to reveal the current location of the deputies.
These rebels have been missing since Friday evening, when a team of the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Rajasthan police went to one of the stations where they camped, in Manesar, in Haryana led by the BJP. , near Delhi.
Rajasthani police went to tape extract from Bhanwar Lal Sharma, who, according to Congress, is heard on tape discussing BJP bribes in a plot to overthrow the Ashok Gehlot government. GalacticGaming cannot verify the authenticity of these tapes.
The Rajasthan police team was arrested briefly before being allowed in by the Haryana police. They returned empty-handed because the 18 deputies were nowhere to be found.
Sources in the Rajasthan police SOG suspect that rebel lawmakers are somewhere in Delhi.
The resort politics that is being played out in Rajasthan is similar to the release of another young congressional leader earlier this year. Jyotiraditya Scindia changed sides in March with 22 loyalist MPs – which led to the collapse of the government of Kamal Nath in Madhya Pradesh. The deputies then flew on a chartered plane to a seaside resort in Bangalore.
Sachin Pilot has been around Delhi with its rebel deputies since the weekend. His feud with Ashok Gehlot intensified after being asked to answer questions about the alleged plot to overthrow the government in which he was number two. As he refused to return to Jaipur and skipped meetings convened by the chief minister, he was dismissed as deputy chief minister and chief of congress in Rajasthan. But in Delhi, the leadership of the Congress is continuing its efforts to bring it back.
Pilot, after being sacked as deputy chief minister and chairman of the Congressional unit in Rajasthan, went to court to challenge the decision to disqualify him and 18 others from the assembly of Rajasthan. Congress says it acted against the party by defying instructions to appear this week at two meetings chaired by Mr. Gehlot.
