Sachin Pilot

The resignations were submitted just ahead of a Congress Legislature Party meeting on Sunday convened to select Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot's successor

Ahead of the crucial Congress Legislature Party meeting in Jaipur on Sunday evening, posters carrying quotes such as 'Naye Yug ki Taiyari' (preparing for a new era) in support of Pilot have surfaced in Jodhpur.

She alleged the new military recruitment scheme would be destructive for the youth and the Army.

He also asserted that the country had been kept ”on a permanent boil” in the last few years, and a culmination of factors such as rejection of the ’Agnipath’ scheme, unemployment and economic and agrarian distress had resulted in the ”severe backlash” from the youth.

The wholesale price-based inflation soared to a record high of 15.08 per cent in April mainly on account of spiralling prices of food, fuel and other commodities.

In an interview with PTI ahead of the party’s ‘Chintan Shivir’ starting here on Friday, Pilot asserted that formulating a successful electoral strategy would be a top agenda point at the three-day brainstorming session.

Sachin Pilot said democracy is such a platform where people of different ideologies and thinking speak their own words and the public decides who is right and who is wrong.

The former Rajasthan deputy chief minister said the government should not only ensure a legal guarantee for the Minimum Support Price (MSP) as demanded by farmers but must also provide a regulation or a law ensuring that procurement takes place.

The number in the council of ministers in the the state has reached 30. The Rajasthan Cabinet can have a maximum of 30 ministers, including the chief minister.

Speaking with reporters after meeting Gandhi, Pilot said, "Whatever the Congress party wants me to do, I am more than happy to do. In the last 20 years, whatever job has been assigned, I have done it diligently and now also whatever the party decides, what role I have…I am happy to do it."

The development comes close on the heels of Jitin Prasada deserting the Congress to join the BJP and in the backdrop of a three-member Congress panel trying to resolve the rebellion against Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.

A day ahead of former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi's visit to Rajasthan to raise the voice of the farmers against the farm laws, he said that the Centre should withdraw the laws and after thorough consultation with farmers and states, come up with a new set of legislations which the tillers would themselves want and is not something that is forced upon them.

Sachin Pilot reiterated the demand of withdrawal of the Centre’s three contentious farm laws, saying the Congress is in support of the farmers.

Sachin Pilot said that BJP’s promise to double the farmers’ income has been sidelined and the farmers have been badly hit.

Pilot has said the Centre should postpone the NEET and JEE examinations in view of the rising number of COVID-19 cases across the country.

Sachin Pilot said a three-member panel been formed by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) to find solutions to all the problems and hoped that the issues will be resolved.

Sachin Pilot has reportedly sought berth for his two most loyal supporters -- Vishvendra Singh and Ramesh Chand Meena.

During the last Rajasthan Assembly session, when Sachin Pilot was the Deputy CM, he would be seated next to CM Ashok Gehlot int he front row, but now he has been pushed back to seat number 127 in the second row.

The session of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly is set to begin days after Congress’ leadership announced former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot’s return to the party-fold along with 18 other MLAs.

The MLAs in the Gehlot camp were on Wednesday flown back to Jaipur from Jaisalmer, where they were together at another hotel.