By Deep Mukherjee
Signalling the widening rift in the Rajasthan Congress, chief minister Ashok Gehlot has said deputy CM and state Congress president Sachin Pilot should take responsibility for his son Vaibhav Gehlot’s defeat from the Jodhpur seat in the Lok Sabha polls.
In an interview to ABP News, Gehlot said: “…Pilot sahab ne kaha kuch din pehle bhi ki bahut bhaari bahumat se seat jitegi Jodhpur ki. Hamare wahan par che MLA hai, shandar campaign hamne kiya hai to mai samajhta hoon ki kam se kam us seat ki zimmedari toh woh lein…ki Jodhpur ki seat jo hai, uska pura post-mortem hona chahiye ki kyon nahi jite ham log.”
“(…Pilot had said a few days ago as well that we would win the Jodhpur seat with a handsome margin, that we have six MLAs there and that we had run a great campaign, so I think that at least he (Pilot) should take the responsibility of this seat…on the Jodhpur seat, its post-mortem should be done on why we didn’t win).”
Gehlot also said whether it is…