“No Way”: Team Pilot MLA Denies Heading To Bengaluru, Location Unknown
Sachin Pilot has been round Delhi with those MLAs for the reason that weekend.
New Delhi:
As thriller deepens at the whereabouts of the 18 Congress legislators from Rajasthan, who’ve sided with Sachin Pilot in his open riot towards Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot, a rebellion MLA has advised NDTV that they don’t seem to be headed to BJP-ruled Karnataka, as speculated all through the night.
“No manner,” a senior legislator from Workforce Pilot advised NDTV when requested if they’ll Karnataka, in a replay of the Madhya Pradesh coup. He, alternatively, was once no longer prepared to show the present location of the MLAs.
Those rebels had been lacking since Friday night, when a crew of Rajasthan Police’s Particular Operations Workforce (SOG) went to one of the vital lodges they had been tenting in, in Manesar in BJP-ruled Haryana close to Delhi.
The Rajasthan Police had long gone to file a voice pattern of Bhanwar Lal Sharma, who, consistent with the Congress, is heard on tape discussing bribes from the BJP as a part of a conspiracy to carry down the Ashok Gehlot executive. NDTV can’t test the authenticity of those tapes.
The Rajasthan Police crew was once stopped in short earlier than being allowed inside of by way of the Haryana Police. They returned empty-handed because the 18 MLAs had been nowhere to be discovered.
Resources within the Rajasthan Police’s SOG imagine the rebellion legislators are someplace in Delhi.
The hotel politics this is being performed out over Rajasthan now could be very similar to any other younger Congress chief’s go out previous this yr. Jyotiraditya Scindia modified camp in March with 22 loyalist MLAs – which ended in the cave in of the Kamal Nath executive in Madhya Pradesh. The MLAs were flown in a chartered aircraft to a hotel in Bengaluru then.
Sachin Pilot has been round Delhi with those MLAs for the reason that weekend. His working feud with Ashok Gehlot escalated after he was once requested to reply to questions at the alleged conspiracy to carry down the federal government through which he was once quantity two. As he refused to go back to Jaipur and skipped conferences known as by way of the Leader Minister, he was once got rid of as Deputy Leader Minister and Rajasthan Congress leader. However in Delhi, the Congress management continues its efforts to carry him round.
Mr Pilot, after being sacked as Deputy Leader Minister and president of the Congress unit in Rajasthan, has long gone to courtroom to problem the transfer to disqualify him and 18 others from the Rajasthan meeting. The Congress says they acted towards the celebration by way of defying directions to seem at two conferences this week that had been chaired by way of Mr Gehlot.
