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Rajasthan: Anger against the Raje govt has made the Congress' job easier

BJP has tried to talk up a rivarly between Pilot and Gehlot but there seems little concern about who the Congress' CM would be

Rahul Gandhi
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FILE PHOTO: Congress President Rahul Gandhi addresses during a public rally, in Bidar | PTI Photo

Radhika Ramaseshan Jaipur
On the ground, circumstances were seldom as propitious for the Congress as they are now in Rajasthan, two days before the state votes on November 7. Agrarian distress has taken its toll in the countryside, with farmers, including the better-off ones, complaining that they did not get the minimum support price or MSP for their produce because the state government was willing to pick up just one crop, groundnut.  Giridhar Saini, who farms his 80 bigha (approximately 50 acres) of land in Laxmangarh village on the Bikaner highway, has ploughed his savings into the fruit business because he found the

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