By executing the rebellion, even though he has said that he has got no role in it, he is trying to make sure that he continues as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan till the elections for the party chief are held and in case he wins, he will be free and authorized to make anyone of his choice as the Chief Minister. In case he faces defeat, then, he will still have the Chief Ministerial Ship because the MLAs—who are over 90 in number and have threatened to resign in case someone else is made the CM—do not want to see Pilot getting the leadership in the state. On the contrary, Pilot also has very limited options; however, silence and letting things unfold would be his safest.
Congress leadership is fuming; if the revolting MLAs—as Gehlot said—are angry, so is the party, which, if reports are to be believed, has decided to keep Gehlot out of the party presidential elections, however, there is no clarity on that and the matter remains under the cloud. Sonia Gandhi on the other side has sought a report from him while expressing her anger. At the same time, even if Gehlot states otherwise, for the Congress leadership in Delhi, it would be quite difficult to believe that rebellion didn’t have active support and encouragement from Gehlot. The leadership would be trying hard to believe the Congress loyalist, but the ground situation depicts the opposite.
The process of having a non-Congress man as the party chief has met the first roadblock in the shape of Rajasthan rebellion against the party decisions, which might end up sending Gehlot back to the CM chair instead of reaching higher and leading the party from Delhi. Behind that, there sure are his motives: he wants to play safe; wants to keep both the options open for himself, and at the same time make sure that Pilot is kept away from having the chair. While the party was seemingly marching ahead towards much-needed reformations, here we have Congress eating up Congress. Interesting!
