Ashok Gehlot

The Rajasthan High court ordered status quo and said there will be no action for now on the disqualification notices against the dissident MLAs.

Without taking the Union minister's name, Gehlot questioned why he is not coming forward to give a voice sample.

The top court's observation came when senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Joshi, listed the reasons for starting disqualification proceedings and said that these MLAs did not attend party meetings and conspired to destabilise their own government.

The development comes amid allegations by the Congress that the minister is involved in a bid to topple the Ashok Gehlot government.

The state government is fighting with coronavirus crisis and at the same time, a leader who was a state Congress president and a few other MLAs in collusion with the BJP were “hatching a conspiracy” to topple it, he alleged without taking the name of Pilot or any other party leader.

The meeting is likely to decide the party's future strategy as the court's decision on disqualification notice given by the Assembly Speaker C P Joshi is likely to be delivered on Tuesday, sources said.

A team of special crime unit of the CBI from Delhi is in Jaipur to record statements in connection with the death of Vishnoi, who was SHO of Rajgarh. His body was found hanging from the ceiling of his official residence in Churu, officials said.

The Chief Minister described him as ‘nikkama’ and ‘nakara’

The BJP has called these clips "manufactured" and demanded a CBI probe, questioning if the state police tapped phones of politicians in violation of rules.

The division bench of the court, hearing the dissident MLAs' petition against the Speaker's notices, adjourned Friday evening. It fixed the next hearing for 10 am on Monday.

The Congress' attack on Shekhawat and some rebel Congress leasers, including MLA Bhanwarlal Sharma, came after two audio clips surfaced pertaining to an alleged conspiracy to topple the Gehlot government.

Rajasthan Political Crisis Live Updates: Congress on Tuesday cracked down on Sachin Pilot, stripping the dissident leader of the posts of Rajasthan's Deputy Chief Minister and the party's state unit president.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced the decision through a Twitter post, in which he congratulated Govind Singh Dotasara.

Though the BJP has made no official comment about any political negotiation with rebel Congress leader Sachin Pilot, sources said he has spoken to some leaders from the saffron party.

Rajasthan Political Crisis Highlights: The Congress on Tuesday sacked Sachin Pilot from the posts of Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister and the party's state unit chief. The party also removed his loyalists Vishvendra Singh and Ramesh Meena from the state cabinet.

"Floor test should be conducted in the assembly. This will expose the claim that the Ashok Gehlot government has the support of 109 MLAs," Meena said on Tuesday.

Ahead of the meeting, Congress general secretary Avinash Pande issued another appeal to Pilot, who had skipped the first CLP meeting at Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's home on Monday.

The second meeting of the Congress Legislature Party was announced several hours after the first one ended on Monday afternoon, skipped by Pilot and 18 other party MLA

Official sources did not comment on reports claiming that the searches were linked to the current political crisis in Rajasthan.

Sachin Pilot on Sunday declared open rebellion, claiming that the Ashok Gehlot government is in minority now as over 30 Congress MLAs are supporting him.