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Jodhpur:The relentless tours of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to Rajasthan hint at the BJPs precarious position in the state, said Congress leader Ashok Gehlot in an exclusive interview with ThePrint..
In a wide-ranging conversation, the former CM spoke at length about the national prospects of the Congress, what went wrong for the party in the assembly elections last year, and why his son Vaibhav Gehlot is contesting from Jalore rather than his home-turf Jodhpur, which he lost to BJPs Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in 2019...
When asked why he remains confident despite the BJPs dominance in Rajasthan over the last two terms, Gehlot claimed that there was growing public anger over the central governments failure to address the needs of the states people...
On the Congress losing the 2023 assembly elections in the state, Gehlot said the BJP created a narrative of lawlessness, especially leveraging the 2022 killing of a tailor in Udaipur by two men who claimed he had insulted Islam...
On the topic of his son, Vaibhav Gehlot, who shifted from Jodhpurwhere incumbent MP Shekhawat is the BJP candidateto contest in Jalore, Gehlot explained: His name was discussed from Jalore even during the last elections in Rajasthan (but) due to some political reasons we asked him to contest from Jodhpur. 0 ..
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