Will study request to hold assembly: Guv to Raj CM

July 24, 2020 15:52

Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra tells CM Ashok Gehlot that the Supreme Court was hearing the disqualification case and he was studying Gehlot's request for calling the assembly session. Gehlot met the governor today at the Raj Bhawan in Jaipur.

The CM along with the MLAs in his camp travelled by bus to the meeting. While the CM met Mishra, the MLAs waited in the Raj Bhawan gardens shouting slogans demanding the Assembly be held.

Gehlot earlier said that Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra is not calling the state Assembly session due to "pressures from the top".

"After the decision of the Cabinet, we wrote a letter to Governor stating that we want Assembly session to be convened in order to discuss issues including corona and the political situation... We believe that because of pressures from the top, Governor is not giving directions to call the session. We are unhappy with this," Gehlot said at a press conference earlier today.

"We want to go to the floor. Opposition parties were also demanding this. I have talked to him over the phone today and requested him again. We want to convene Assembly session from Monday. We have a clear majority and we have no problem. But despite this they are worried," he said.

Congress MLAs have been staying at the hotel for nearly two weeks after the state plunged into a political crisis as the differences between Sachin Pilot and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot came out in the open.

Later, Rajasthan Assembly Speaker CP Joshi sent disqualification notices to Pilot and 18 MLAs under the anti-defection law after the chief whip's application for their disqualification.

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