Pilot warns of larger agitation across Rajasthan
Jaipur: congress leader and former Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot on Monday placed three demands before his party’s government, warning that if these demands are not met by the end of this month, then he will agitate in the entire state.
At the public meeting held in Bhankrota here to mark conclusion of his Jan Sangharsh Yatra, Pilot said: “Till now we were speaking in a Gandhian way. There will be a big movement in villages and cities now and we will get justice done.”
Pilot’s three demands include that the Rajasthan Public Service Commission should be dissolved and a new organisation should be formed, unemployed should get compensation in lieu of paper leak and there should be a high-level inquiry into the corruption that happened during the previous Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government.
Targeting Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Pilot said: “We are working for the organisation while being abused without holding any post and you are eating cream while siting in power.”
“Let people hear that don’t limit me, I don’t belong to any religion or society. I am the son of 36 communities. I am the son of Rajasthan,” he added.
“Whether I remain in any position or not, we will continue to serve the people of Rajasthan. I am not afraid, I am not going to suppress. I have fought for you and will keep fighting.”
Pilot recalled that in 2013, the Congress was let with only 21 MLAS and then party chief Sonia Gandhi called him and said that the condition of the party in Rajasthan is very bad, “you go and become the President.”
“In these five years, we strongly opposed the Vasundhara government on the basis of its policies. There was open loot in Vasundhara’s rule,” he said.
Pilot said that the Chief Minister is also the Home Minister and the Finance Minister: “I said many times that what we have said should be investigated.
“I observed a day-fast for the investigation of the Vasundhara government. I thought we should go to the public. Corruption is eating the society like termites. We will have to strike hard. “We have to show the world that we do what we say.”