Make Pilot CM: Supporters bring Raj drama to Delhi

September 30, 2022 16:13

Amid a protracted crisis in the Congress, the supporters of Sachin Pilot gathered at the All India Congress Committee office in New Delhi on Friday and demanded that he be elected as the party president or be made the chief minister of Rajasthan.

As soon as Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot arrived at the AICC office, the supporters began raising slogans in favour of Pilot.

"We want to see Sachin Pilot as the chief minister of Rajasthan or as the national president of Congress," said a supporter of Pilot.

"Rahul Gandhi is also young; the future of India is in the hands of the youth. Till the youth is not given a top post, the Congress will not get power. Pilot knows about problems at the ground level and what the party workers go through. We demand he be made the party president," he added.

Gehlot on Thursday announced that he was pulling out of the Congress presidential polls following the political turmoil in Rajasthan.

Pilot's supporters wanted to see him as the next Rajasthan CM in the event Gehlot shifted to Delhi.

The young leader met interim party president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi on Thursday.

After the meeting, he said the decision of the Congress chief will be final on who will be at the helm of affairs in Rajasthan.

Gehlot, meanwhile, has said he had apologised to Sonia Gandhi for the problems emerging in the state triggered by his loyalists.

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