Click to play videoJaipur: In Rajasthan the Congress is still struggling to find an answer to who the state's next Chief Minister will be.
Even as the party is trying to do a balancing act between the popular choice former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and the powerful Jat lobby.
However, what might be beneficial to Gehlot is that the Jats are now a divided house.
From the Congress High Command to the Gods, the Jats in Rajasthan have been petitioning everybody for a Jat Chief Minister
However, now with at least eight out of their sixteen MLAs now rallying behind Ashok Gehlot, the community is now a divided house.
Congress MLA, Jaipur Mahendra Choudhary says, “Everyone has only one choice, Ashok Gehlot. This division on the basis of community will harm us.”
Senior leaders from the community are still lobbying for either union minister Shish Ram Ola or Baytu legislator Colonel Sonaram.
The Congress also has the option of giving the Jats a deputy Chief Minister or go for a candidate who'll be more acceptable to the Jats than Gehlot, like state Congress President CP Joshi.
Meanwhile, Gehlot has openly lashed out against such moves.
Gehlot says, “Democracy doesn't run on caste considerations. If politics is played on caste lines it'll make our democracy weak.”
With the issue getting more complicated, all eyes are now on the Congress observers who'll meet the Congress legislators on Thursday.
The crisis over who Rajasthan's next Chief Minister will be has only deepened. It'll now be interesting to see if the Congress can put behind political considerations to make room for the popular choice.
(For updates you can share with your friends, follow IBNLive on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest)
More on IBNLive Right Now
MOST SHARED
PHOTOGALLERY
