Choice of CMs of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh left to Rahul Gandhi

The issue of electing the leaders for the post of chief ministers in Rajasthan as well as Madhya Pradesh has been referred to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi as the warring factions of Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot, Kamal Nath n Jyotiraditya Scindhya and their supporters raising slogans since morning, demanding selection of their respective leaders as chief ministers of these states are not relenting and nor are either of these leaders.

There has been total confusion at Jaipur since morning as vociferous slogans shouting supporters of Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot looked in a mood to physically scuffle with each other and the slogan shouting continued till evening.

Meanwhile two observers from Delhi namely Venugopal and Avinash Pandey, the party’s national general secretary arrived at the venue at Jaipur and held one to one meetings with all the MLAs.

The senior Congress leader in the race of the chief minister Ashok Gehlot whose chances seem more bright in view of his long term experience as the former CM of the state got a single line resolution passed in the meeting, passing the responsibility of selecting the CM nominee on the Congress high command and Rahul Gandhi which was duly consented by every MLA.

After the deliberations for several hours the observers recommended their findings to the Congress president leaving on him to take the final decision unilaterally.

The MLAs were asked to leave and so were the slogan shouting crowd. It’s expected that since the matter of selection of Rajasthan chief minister became bit tough as none of the two i.e. Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot ready to relent, the Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will reveal the name of the chief minister either at late midnight or tomorrow perhaps after due consultation with his mother Sonia Gandhi or other senior functionaries of the party.

Similarly in Madhya Pradesh the supporters of Scindia and Kamalnath raised slogans demanding their leaders to be chosen as CM of Madhya Pradesh. The senior Congress leader Kamal Nath, Jyotiraditya Scindia and the former CM MP n AICC general secretary met the governor Maniben Patel and handed her the letter n list of 121 lawmakers with the BSP n SP support, requesting her to call them to form the government in the state. Meanwhile the Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia held a meeting of his supporting MLAs and so was the meeting of Kamalnath faction in progress to mobilise the maximum numbers.

Since in Rajasthan n Madhya Pradesh there are two claiments in each state with MLAs and supporters wanting their leaders to be sworn in as the chief ministers respectively, the matter of the selection of the chief ministers have been recommended to the Congress high command n the Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.

The hectic meeting is in progress in the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee right now and the result is expected any moment. Hundreds of followers of both the factions raising slogans against each other n in favour of their leaders have gathered outside the Party headquarter at Jaipur with heavy police bandobast fearing any untoward incident or scuffle between the suppoerters of Gehlot n Pilot.

However till now, the names of party veterans Ashok Gehlot and Kamal Nath are on the top for the Chief ministership of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

Meanwhile according to a survey carried out by Aaj Tak about 57% Congress supporters want Ashok Gehlot to take the cudgels as CM in Rajasthan while 53% supporter favour young Jyotiraditya Scindia while in Chattisgarh 38% Congress supporters favour T. K. Singh as CM than Baghel.

Meanwhile as per the latest development n reliable sources the Congress leader n MP Jyotiraditya Scindia has recomended the name of Kamalnath for the chief ministership in Madhya Pradesh ending all speculations. Kamal Nath has emerged as the next chief minister of the state waiting for the official stamp of the Congress High Command.