Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and senior Congress leader Kamal Nath was called in to cool tempers in the two factions of the Congress in Rajasthan — one led by Ashok Gehlot and the other by Sachin Pilot.
The duo is locked in a standoff, in an unintended offshoot of the ongoing election of the Congress president.
Sources in the Congress, who know Gehlot, say he may not file a nomination for the president’s post at all so that he gets to keep his chief ministership. He is supposed to file a nomination on Tuesday.
MLAs ‘loyal’ to Gehlot had resigned en masse
