Senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot.

New Delhi:

Senior party leader Sachin Pilot has arrived in Delhi to meet party chief Sonia Gandhi amid heavy turmoil in the Rajasthan unit of Congress.

Sources said that Pilot has sought time to meet Sonia Gandhi, which has not been given yet.

Sources close to him said that no meeting has been fixed yet.

In Rajasthan, more than 90 MLAs are opposing the appointment of Sachin Pilot as the Chief Minister after Ashok Gehlot.

All the MLAs had threatened to resign collectively.

Sources have indicated that Ashok Gehlot is also likely to visit Delhi and meet Sonia Gandhi.

Blog: The future of both Gehlot and Pilot is at stake

At the same time, party observers in their report submitted to party president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday regarding the crisis in the Rajasthan unit of Congress have said that convening a separate meeting of MLAs parallel to the meeting of Congress Legislature Party is 'gross indiscipline'.

For this, disciplinary action should be taken against three leaders including Chief Whip Mahesh Joshi. 

Sources also said that apart from Joshi, disciplinary action has been recommended against cabinet minister Shanti Dhariwal and MLA Dharmendra Rathore.

These three leaders are considered close to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.

Recommendation of 'action' against 3 close associates of Gehlot, report submitted to Sonia Gandhi

Sources said that there is no direct reference to Chief Minister Gehlot in this report of observers.

Sonia Gandhi on Monday asked both the observers Mallikarjun Kharge and Ajay Maken to submit a written report.

Kharge and Maken returned to Delhi on Monday and met Sonia Gandhi at 10 Janpath, the residence of the Congress president, after the legislature party meeting could not be held in Jaipur and MLAs supporting Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot took a virtually rebellious stand.

Congress general secretary K.C.

Venugopal was also present in the meeting.

After the meeting with Sonia Gandhi that lasted for more than one and a half hours, Maken had said that the meeting of the legislature party in Jaipur on Sunday evening was called with the consent of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.

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Let us tell you, the meeting of the Congress Legislature Party in Rajasthan was to be held at the Chief Minister's residence on Sunday evening, but many MLAs loyal to Gehlot did not attend the meeting.

He held a meeting at Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal's bungalow and from there he went to meet Speaker of the Assembly Dr. CP Joshi to resign.


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