Rajasthan’s government has been restructured and reshuffled, and now the state Congress organization is preparing for expansion. The majority of the appointments are expected to be announced before the government’s three-year term ends in December. Govind Singh Dotasara, the State Congress President, will be in Delhi for two days to promote this. He is visiting Delhi for the first time since resigning as a minister.
Many of the party’s enraged leaders and workers will be reshuffled in the state organization’s appointments. Their executive committee will be constituted after the district and block presidents have been elected.
Thousands of Congress leaders and employees will be granted positions and respect as a result of these nominations, allowing the organization to be activated in time for the two-year assembly elections.
After a carefully orchestrated reshuffle on Sunday, the Congress government in Rajasthan was restored to its full strength of 30 members, with the return of two sacked ministers and enough representation for former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot to bury the hatchet with CM Ashok Gehlot after 16 months of wrangling.
“Cabinet changes have guaranteed that Rajasthan’s Congress government will get repeated in 2023. BJP was predicting our government’s fall after the cabinet reshuffle, but the rejig has worked to strengthen us 25 times more,” Pilot remarked at a press conference following the swearing-in of 15 ministers, 12 of them are new faces.
While it was unclear whether Pilot had earned anything, he did seem to claw his way back into the party’s inner circle. Sachin Pilot appeared to have clawed his way back into Congress’s inner circle, as evidenced by the party leadership’s agreement to his demand for “respectable representation to those who laboured to create the government in 2018.”
He stated that the reshuffle was made in response to feedback from the state’s Congress levels. He complimented Head Minister Gehlot, AICC Rajasthan minder Ajay Maken, PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasra, and the central leadership for a “comprehensive, accurate, and well-thought-out reshuffle” with greater Dalit and ST representation.
Vishvendra Singh and Ramesh Meena, both of whom were fired last year for siding with Pilot in his rebellion against Gehlot, were among the 15 ministers to whom governor Kalraj Mishra administered the oath of office.
Four junior ministers have been promoted to cabinet positions. The lone Muslim MLA among the newcomers, Zahida Khan, took her oath in English, while the rest chose Hindi.
HemaRam Chaudhary, a Jat leader from western Rajasthan, was the first to be sworn in as a six-time MLA and former cabinet minister. He was one of the 19 Congress members of parliament who had defied Gehlot. The reshuffle did not include any of the 13 independent MLAs who had backed the Congress government during the crisis last year.
His office named six MLAs as advisers to the CM late Sunday. Jitendra Singh, Rajkumar Sharma, and Danish Abrar are Congress MLAs, while Babu Lal Nagar, Sanyam Lodha, and Ramkesh Meena are independent legislators.
Is it to be accepted that the party’s high command has succeeded in bringing in both Congress groups in the state by expanding the cabinet? This appears to be the case for the time being, but the battle between the two will continue. Sachin wants to be the chief minister of Rajasthan, but Ashok Gehlot wants him to stay out of the states’ politics. The battle of picketing and knocking will continue on both sides in this case.
It will be fascinating to watch what capacity Sachin Pilot is assigned by the high command. Rather than being assigned to a position in Rajasthan, he can now be promoted to national general secretary and assigned to any state. Pilot’s discussion with Congress president Sonia Gandhi resulted in a decision on this. Even after taking over as governor of another state, Pilot will continue to work in Rajasthan. Pilot has stated that he is prepared for the responsibilities that the high command will bestow.
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