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Rajasthan political crisis: Congress called a meeting of all its MLAs today to iron out differences between Pilot and Gehlot. Stay tuned with Business Standard for the latest news of today

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Rahul, Priyanka in touch with Sachin Pilot

As the Congress grappled with a crisis in Rajasthan, the top party leadership on Monday appeared to go all out to pacify Sachin Pilot, who has raised a revolt against chief minister Ashok Gehlot, with senior party leaders saying that both Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra talked to the rebel leader.
 

The Congress leadership has also assured Pilot of quick redressal of his concerns, party sources said.
 

These overtures from the Congress top brass came a day after some senior party leaders expressed concern over the crisis in Rajasthan, and sought immediate action from the party leadership to resolve it.

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HDFC Bank launches probe on auto loan practices following allegations

HDFC Bank on Monday said it has launched a probe into its auto lending practices following allegations against the conduct of a long-time executive who retired on March 31 this year.
 

"We would like to state that the executive concerned who was on an extension of service retired on March 31, 2020 in the normal course of his employment. The bank has a well established process of investigating every complaint that it receives and takes actions as appropriate," an HDFC Bank spokesperson said.
 

The auto loan department executive could not be contacted for comments.

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15th Finance Commission holds meeting with Health Ministry

The 15th Finance Commission on Monday held a meeting with Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and senior officials of the ministry on revising the State Specific proposals of the ministry in light of the Covid-19 experience.

 

The Chairman of the Commission, N K Singh, said looking at the peculiar state of the pandemic, the commission's final report will have a separate chapter on health.

 

The ministry pointed out that presently 35 per cent of the public health expenditure is done by the Centre and 65 per cent by the state governments.

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Do everything to persuade Sachin Pilot: Kuldeep Bishnoi urges Congress leadership

Haryana's Adampur MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi on Monday urged the Congress leadership to do everything possible to persuade Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot, saying his exit from the party will deal a severe blow to it, according to a PTI report.

 

The Congress in Rajasthan is witnessing a power tussle between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his deputy Sachin Pilot, upset since he was denied the the chief minister's post after the December 2018 assembly elections. The current crisis began Friday night when the Rajasthan Police sent a notice to Pilot, asking him to record his statement over an alleged attempt to bring down the government.

 

The same notice was sent to the chief minister and some other MLAs, but Pilot's supporters claimed that it was only meant to humiliate him. Commenting on the issue, 51-year-old Bishoni, who is the younger son of former Haryana chief minister Bhajan Lal, also batted for promoting young faces with a mass base to strengthen the party.

 

Earlier, Bishnoi had described Jyotiraditya Scindia's exit from the party in March as a big blow and said there are many devoted leaders across the country who feel "alienated, wasted and discontented".

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IT raids in Delhi, Jaipur in tax evasion case against Rajasthan group

The Income Tax Department is conducting searches in four cities, including Delhi and Jaipur, in connection with a tax evasion case against a Rajasthan-based jewellery group, officials said on Monday.

 

They said the raids have been launched early morning in Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai and Kota. At least 80 tax sleuths apart from police officials are part of the action, they said.

 

They said the department initiated action on the basis of inputs of huge cash transactions taking place and the business group's alleged links to these transactions. Another entity in Rajasthan is also being searched, they said. Official sources did not comment on reports claiming that the searches were linked to the current political crisis in the state.

 

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Sachin Pilot, 19 other Rajasthan MLAs skip Congress Legislature Party meeting

Twenty MLAs, including Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot, did not attend the Congress Legislature Party meeting held at the residence of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday amid the political crisis in the state, sources said according to an ANI report.

 

Apart from Pilot, Ved Solanki, Rakesh Parik, Murari Lal Meena, JR Khatana, Indraj Gurjar, Gajendra Singh Shaktavat, Hareesh Meena, Deependra Singh Shekhawat, Bhanwar Lal Sharma, Gajraj Khatana, Vijedra Ola, Hemaram Choudhary, PR Meena, Ramesh Meena, Vishvendra Singh, Mukesh Bhakar, Suresh Modi, Virendra Choudhary and Amar Singh Jatav were not present at the meeting.

 

Virendra Choudhary, however, met Rajasthan Congress in-charge Avinash Pande and party leaders Randeep Surjewala and Ajay Maken in the evening.

 

Sources close to Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot have said that the government headed by Ashok Gehlot does not have the numbers claimed by them. They have also said that the Chief Minister's back garden is not the place to prove the majority and it is done in the assembly.

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Congress MLAs taken to Hotel Fairmont in Jaipur after CLP meeting at CM Ashok Gehlot's residence earlier today