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THE TIMES OF INDIA | Jul 18, 2020, 23:21:21 IST
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Rajasthan crisis live updates: Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot claims support of 2 Bhartiya Tribal Party MLAs
The tussle in Rajasthan Congress has now landed in court, with Sachin Pilot and 18 other MLAs challenging their disqualification by the Assembly Speaker. However, the matter, which was heard by a division bench of the Rajasthan HC, has been deferred till Monday. Stay with TOI for live updates
09:43 (IST) Jul 17
Congress demands probe to find out if Central ministers are also involved in the 'plot' against Gehlot govt
09:42 (IST) Jul 17
Congress demands FIR against Union minister Gajendra Shekhawat for indulging in efforts to topple Rajasthan govt
09:39 (IST) Jul 17
Voices of Gajendra Lal, Bhanwar Lal on tape, Surjewala says
09:38 (IST) Jul 17
Surjewala reads out transcript from an audio tape, with purported talks of 'horse trading'
09:36 (IST) Jul 17
Two audio tapes with purported discussions to bring down Gehlot govt has emerged: Surjewala
"Yesterday, shocking tapes were aired by the media in which Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, BJP leader Sanjay Jain & Congress MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma spoke about bribing MLAs and bringing down Rajasthan govt," Surjewala said.
09:35 (IST) Jul 17
BJP active in bringing down Gehlot govt: RS Surjewala, Congress
08:27 (IST) Jul 17
CM Ashok Gehlot's loyalists have alleged that Congress MLA and former cabinet minister Bhanwarlal Sharma was making an attempt to topple the government along with former Dy CM Sachin Pilot; Sharma has refuted the allegations
08:10 (IST) Jul 17
"Former CM Vasundhara Raje has been trying her best to save the Ashok Gehlot government, which is in a minority. Many MLAs of the Congress were called up by her in this regard," Hanuman Beniwal, a Lok Sabha MP, claimed in a tweet. Beniwal, a former BJP leader and Raje-baiter for a long time, claimed that there is an "internal understanding" between her and incumbent chief minister Gehlot. Raje has maintained silence during the unfolding crisis in the state after rebel Congress leader Sachin Pilot revolted against the government.
08:08 (IST) Jul 17
Amid the ongoing political crises, the Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) has decided to support chief minister Ashok Gehlot. The party vice-president Paresh Bhai Vasava, in a press conference at Dungarpur on Thursday, said the BTP respects the public mandate and does not want to topple the government which has been elected by the people Earlier, the party which has two MLAs in the Rajasthan assembly, had asked its legislators to remain neutral and not align either with CM Gehlot or his deputy Sachin Pilot.
07:56 (IST) Jul 17
Sources in Congress on Thursday said the top party leadership is still keeping the "doors open" for the rebel leader, and has also asked Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot not to make critical comments against his former deputy. Sources also claimed that Pilot has spoken to a senior party leader from south India on Thursday laying conditions for his return.
07:44 (IST) Jul 17
CM Gehlot expected to address media at 9am
07:18 (IST) Jul 17
Rajasthan crisis: Ashok Gehlot-Sachin Pilot camps circulate audio-video clips to malign each other
In a development related to the prevailing political crisis in Rajasthan, chief minister Ashok Gehlot’s camp late Thursday night released three phone audio clips, two of which were allegedly between a Union minister and a rebel Congress MLA camping in Manesar speaking through a middleman about toppling the state government in the coming days. Gehlot’s Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Lokesh Sharma sent the audio clips to TOI on WhatsApp with a brief unsigned note claiming that the Union minister and the Congress lawmaker were conspiring to topple the Gehlot-government once they get their desired strength of 30 MLAs.
Read more06:59 (IST) Jul 17
Even as a section of leaders within the Congress feels that Sachin Pilot has "gone too far", especially after he took the party to court over the disqualification issue, sources on Thursday said the top party leadership is still keeping the "doors open" for the rebel leader, and has also asked Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot not to make critical comments against his former deputy.
05:53 (IST) Jul 17
The MLAs’ petition argues that the Speaker should have given them at least a week’s time to respond to the allegations against them instead of just two days (till 3pm on July 17). “Grave mischief is sought to be achieved by the prejudicial manner in which the CLP is seeking to impose sanctions upon the MLAs on sheer presumptuous basis, as the complaint (by Congress chief whip) is dated July 14 and the showcause notice is issued (by the speaker) on the same day,” the petition states.
05:53 (IST) Jul 17
The original petition had only challenged the notices issued by Speaker CP Joshi on the basis of a complaint filed by Congress against Pilot and his loyalists, accusing them of conspiring with BJP to topple the Ashok Gehlot government. The division bench of Chief Justice Indrajit Mahanty and Justice Prakash Gupta will take up the amended joint petition on Friday.
05:53 (IST) Jul 17
Pilot's lawyers — Harish Salve, Mukul Rohatgi and Devadutt Kamat — had sought time to amend the petition during the first hearing, saying the petitioners wanted to incorporate elements challenging the constitutional validity of portions of the Rajasthan Assembly Member (Disqualification on the grounds of changing party) Rules, 1989. The plea was accepted despite opposition from Congress counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi and advocate general MS Singhvi, representing the Speaker.
05:53 (IST) Jul 17
Two versions of the petition were heard during the day, first at 3pm and again at 5pm, before the single-judge bench of Justice Satish Kumar Sharma acceded to a plea to list the matter before a division bench.
05:53 (IST) Jul 17
Challenging Congress’s reliance on the (anti-defection) law to stem dissent, the petition argues that it could potentially have dangerous consequences such as an elected representative being deprived of assembly membership at the “whims and fancies of the leader of the party”.
05:53 (IST) Jul 17
Sacked Rajasthan deputy CM Sachin Pilot and his band of 18 Congress MLAs on Thursday filed a petition in the high court, challenging the constitutional validity of “some provisions” in the legislature rules invoked by the Speaker to issue them disqualification notices on grounds of defying the party whip and staying away from CLP meetings on consecutive days.
05:52 (IST) Jul 17
Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot to brief media today morning at Fairmont Hotel in Jaipur where Congress party MLAs are lodged: ANI
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