Taking a swipe at infighting in the ruling Congress in Rajasthan following a public spat between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said an “ugly form” of politics was visible in the State. “This is a State where the CM does not have faith in his MLAs and they also don’t trust him,” Mr. Modi said.
Addressing a BJP rally at Abu Road in Sirohi district, Mr. Modi said the Congress leaders, fighting a political battle for power for the last five years, were busy in the game of “looting and saving the chair”. He said that while everyone was competing to insult each other, there was no one to take care of public welfare and the State’s development.
The Prime Minister’s remarks came in the wake of Mr. Pilot’s jibe that Mr. Gehlot’s “real leader” was the BJP’s Vasundhara Raje rather than his own party’s Sonia Gandhi. Mr. Gehlot had earlier claimed that Ms. Raje and two other BJP leaders had helped save his government during a rebellion staged by Mr. Pilot and 18 other Congress MLAs in 2020.
