Congress general secretary K C Venugopal clarified on Wednesday that the party has not exonerated the three leaders of its Rajasthan unit who were served notices for holding a parallel CLP meeting on September 25. Venugopal told reporters at the airport here before leaving for Sawai Madhopur to join his party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra that the issue is currently being considered by the disciplinary committee.
The Congress had called a Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting in Jaipur on September 25 after Chief Minister announced his decision to contest the party president election. Amid speculation that Congress leader could be named as Gehlot’s successor, some MLAs considered loyal to the chief minister held a separate meeting at the residence of state minister Shanti Dhariwal and handed over their resignations to the Speaker. The party had issued show cause notices to Dhariwal and MLAs Rathore and Mahesh Joshi, who is the chief whip of the party in the state assembly.
In response to a local media report claiming the Congress had given a clean chit to the three rebel leaders, Venugopal stated, “The matter is under consideration of the disciplinary committee. No clean chit has been given.” The three leaders have already submitted their replies to the show cause notices.
Last month, senior Congress leader Ajay Maken sent a letter to the party president expressing his unwillingness to continue as the in-charge of Rajasthan, where the two leaders had gone as central observers for holding the CLP meeting. However, Maken was asked to continue in the post, according to party sources.
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