The stage is all set for by-elections to two assembly seats in Rajasthan's Vallabhnagar and Dhariawad on Saturday, with the election being viewed as a significant test for the performance of the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government.
Is Congress’s Gehlot-Pilot patch-up act for real?
Is Congress’s Gehlot-Pilot patch-up act for real? | India Today Insight
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UPDATED: March 5, 2021 13:34 IST
Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot during a protest rally against the Citizenship Amendment Act and NRC in Jaipur, July 14 (ANI)
The past few days have been one of ‘patch-up politics’ in Rajasthan. On February 28, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and archrival Sachin Pilot flew in the same helicopter from Jaipur to a village in Bikaner along with state Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra and Ajay Maken, the AICC general secretary in charge of Rajasthan. Gehlot and Pilot even agreed to a photo-op and flashed smiled at the rallies they addressed from the same dais.