Dotasra gets new team as Cong announces Rajasthan PCC, Pilot loyalits accomodated

Nearly six months after a rebellion by Sachin Pilot, the Congress on Wednesday announced a new executive body of its Rajasthan unit. The party appointed seven vice presidents, eight general secretaries and 24 secretaries to the Pradesh Congress Committee, in an apparent balancing act between the two camps led by Pilot and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.

Jaipur: Govind Singh Dotasra, who was given the charge of Rajasthan Congress unit following the political uproar in the party on July 14, 2020, got his new team after a long wait of six months. The party appointed seven vice presidents, eight general secretaries and 24 secretaries to the Pradesh Congress Committee, in an apparent balancing act between the two camps led by Pilot and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.

A total of 39 leaders, including the loyalists of former deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot, have also been accommodated in this committee. They include - Rajendra Choudhary, G R Khatana, Ved Solanki, Rakesh Pareek, Deshraj Meena, Mahendra Kheri, Mahendra Gurjar, Prashant Sharma, Rakhi Gautam and Shobha Solanki.

The Pradesh Congress Committee has also got eleven MLAs. They include - Govind Meghwal, Jitender Singh Gurjar, Mahendra Jeet Malviya, Ramlal Jaat, G R Khatana, Hakim Ali, Lakhan Meena, Prashant Bairwa, Rakesh Pareek, Reeta Chowdhary and Ved Solanki. These 11 MLAs also include the three (Ved Solanki, Rakesh Pareek and G R Khatana) who had joined Sachin Pilot group after the party witnessed infighting last year.

It also has five former MLAs. They are - Nasim Akhtar, Mahendra Gurjar, Mangilal Garasiya, Harimohan Sharma, and Rajinder Chowdhary. Out of these five - Nasim Akhtar, Rajinder Chowdhary and Mangilal Garasiya have been ministers earlier.

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The newly formed Pradesh Congress Committee also has six leaders who had lost polls and they include - Nasim Akhtar Insaf, Pushpender Bhardwaj, Mangilal Garasiya, Shobha Solanki, Prashant Sharma and Rakhi Gautam. Lakhan Meena is one MLA in the committee who switched over to Congress from BSP.

Castes like Jaat, SC, Brahmin, Gurjar, Yadav, tribals, Muslims, Meena, Patel, Kumawat, Rajput, Sirvi, Mali and Jangir.

Women Naseem Akhtar Insaf, Shobha Solanki, Pratishtha Yadav and Rakhi Gautam have also been inducted in the committee.

Congress had already made it clear that people, who get place in the committee would be out of the future political appointments and that was the reason that most of the leaders were not interested to be a part of the Rajasthan Congress Committee.

Discussions in the political circles of the state after formation of the Rajasthan Congress Committee are on with people talking about the possibilities in future. It's being talked about that now the leaders of the Sachin Pilot camp would get place in the cabinet and other political appointments.

Gehlot had pipped Pilot in the race for chief ministership after the party's victory in the 2018 assembly polls. The stand-off between the two in July last year had brought the Congress-led government to the brink of collapse but the party's central leadership brought about a truce with the formation of a three-member committee to look into Pilot's grievances.

Thanking the Congress president for the new executive, Gehlot expressed the hope it will succeed in taking the party's principles, programmes and policies to villages.