New Delhi: With the Congress is going to witness a massive reshuffle in the state cabinet, former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot on Sunday said that he is satisfied with this decision which has been taken to present a united front to win 2023 elections.
“I am glad that high command has taken notice of various concern within the party,” Pilot’s assertion comes a year after his open rebellion against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had plunged the ruling party into a huge crisis.
“New ministers will be sworn in today. The step – taken by the party and the leadership after discussions – is sending a positive message across the state,” he said.
Meanwhile, the new cabinet will have 15 new faces of which four will be four will be ministers of state to be sworn-in on Sunday as Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot will reshuffle his cabinet after the Congress sought to ease tension between the senior leaders of the party.
The new Rajasthan cabinet will have 12 new faces, including five ministers from the Sachin Pilot camp, in the reshuffle. Congress leader Sachin Pilot’s “loyalists” MLAs Hemaram Choudhary, Vishvendra Singh, Murari Lal Meena, Ramesh Meena and Brijendra Ola, will be part of the cabinet of Ashok Gehlot after the reshuffle.
Rejecting any infighting within the party, Gehlot said, “Congress is joinited and working under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi. There is no this guth or that guth and there is Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi or Priyanka Gandhi group and we all are their members,” he said.
Meanwhile, in September, the Congress had picked Charanjit Channi as Punjab’s first Dalit Chief Minister after infighting in state’s unit and Captain Amarinder had resigned as CM.