'Jan jan ke mukhyamantri': Congress's tweet for Ashok Gehlot

On a day senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot embarked on his Jan Sangharsh Yatra the Congress on Thursday tweeted a video clip of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot acting on the demands of a group of students and called him a jan jan ke mukhyamantri peoples chief ministerFormer Rajasthan deputy chief minister and Gehlots bete noire Pilot embarked on his Jan Sangharsh Yatra from Ajmer mounting pressure on Gehlot and the Congress central leadership in the runup to the assembly polls later this yearIn a tweet the Congress posted a video in which a group of students came up to Gehlot during his recent visit to Udaipur and demanded that education at the Masters level be provided in their collegeIt is narrated in the video that Gehlot immediately acted on their demand and issued directives that all steps be taken to ensure that Masters level education is provided at the collegeThe Congress shared the video along with the words jan jan ke mukhyamantriAlso Read Rajasthan Sachin Pilot begins his Jan Sangharsh Yatra from AjmerIn another tweet the Congress posted another clip of Gehlot addressing people and alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not respect the Opposition and talks about a Congressmukt IndiaThe Congress had shared the same video on Gehlots interaction with the students on May 9 as well Interestingly that day Pilot had announced his Jan Sangharsh Yatra and remarked that a recent speech of Gehlot indicated his real leader is BJPs Vasundhara Raje and not Sonia GandhiThe Congress has been largely tightlipped about Pilots yatra though the partys media department chairperson Pawan Khera on Wednesday dismissed as a joke and laughable Pilots remarkLast month Pilot had held a daylong fast flagging the inaction of the Gehlot government in alleged cases of corruption when the BJP ran the stateBefore starting the 125kmlong fiveday yatra on Thursday Pilot addressed a public gathering on the Jaipur Highway in Ajmer and raised the issue of question papers for recruitment in different government posts being leakedGehlot and Pilot have been at loggerheads publicly for more than two years In 2020 Pilot had led a rebellion in the party for a change of leadership in the state However Gehlot managed to survive and Pilot and some of his loyalists were later ousted from the state cabinetThe chief minister while addressing a public programme in Dholpur on Sunday had claimed that he survived a revolt in 2020 by some Congress MLAs because BJP leaders Vasundhara Raje and Kailash Meghwal refused to support a conspiracy to topple an elected government through money powerA couple of days later Pilot targeted Gehlot over his comments saying it appeared that the veteran Congressmans leader was Vasundhara Raje and not Sonia Gandhi He had also rejected the charge that the dissidents whom he had led took any money from the BJPThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever