Ashok Gehlot's big claim: 'Vasundhara Raje, 2 BJP leaders helped save my govt in 2020'

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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday made a startling admission and said that former CM Vasundhara Raje and two other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders had helped save his government during the 2020 revolt by Congress MLAs...

In July 2020, Gehlot's then-deputy Sachin Pilot and 18 other Congress MLAs revolted against his leadership..

"I have even told the MLAs that whatever money they have taken, Rs 10 crore or Rs 20 crore, if you have spent anything, I will give that part or I will get it from AICC (All India Congress Committee)," he said.. Ashok Gehlot further said that he was made the chief minister by the Congress for a third time and it was his duty to take all along and forget past happenings and ensure the return of the party to power in the Assembly election...

Gehlot said he, as the state party chief, did not support the toppling of the BJP government led by Bhairon Singh Shekhawat as it was unfair, in the same manner, Raje and Meghwal did not support the toppling of the Congress government in 2020...

He said that these three MLAs, BSP-turned-Congress MLAs and independent MLAs who had supported him and saved his government during the political crisis in 2020 deserved to be made ministers in his government but he could not do so due to political reasons and was sad about it...

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