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“Apologised To Sonia Gandhi, Will Not Contest Congress Prez Polls”: Ashok Gehlot

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Ashok Gehlot spoke to media persons and said that the party will decide whether he will serve as Chief Minister of Rajasthan or not

New Delhi: Congress presidential polls are scheduled to be held on October 17. Congress Leaders Shashi Tharoor and Digvijay Singh will be filing their nominations tomorrow. Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot too was supposed to contest the elections. But after recent political developments in Rajasthan, he has decided to withdraw from this race.

In Congress, there has been a lot of debate about who will be the next CM of Rajasthan if Ashok Gehlot becomes Congress President, as the party will follow the ‘one person one post’ policy adapted in Udaipur declaration. Congress leader Sachin Pilot’s name was on the cards to become the next CM of Rajasthan but many MLAs were against him and this became a hurdle for him to get the opportunity to serve as CM.

In the wake of this political drama, Ashok Gehlot met Sonia Gandhi on Thursday.

After meeting Gandhi, he spoke to media persons and said that he has decided not to contest the presidential polls. He also stressed that the party will decide on whether he still serve as CM of Rajasthan or not.

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Gehlot said, “Have always been a disciplined soldier of Congress.”

“I met Rahul Gandhi in Kochi and requested him to fight in the polls (for Congress President). When he didn’t accept, I said I’ll contest but now with that incident, I’ve decided not to contest the elections,” he said.

It was shocking for Gehlot to see MLAs backing him for skipping the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting and tendering their resignations to Assembly Speaker two days ago. He said, “it gave a message that all of it happened as I wanted to be CM.”

After meeting Sonia Gandhi he said, “It was my moral responsibility that the resolution should have been passed (in the CLP). So I have decided that I won’t contest (party president) election in these circumstances. It is my decision.”

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Uttarakhand BJP Leader’s Wife Dead In UP Police’s Crossfire, Leader Seeks CBI Probe

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BJP Leader said, “We want a CBI enquiry to get justice for my wife. We did not use any weapons or fire. Instead, we handed them over to the police”

New Delhi: UP Police on Wednesday afternoon was chasing a mining mafia called Zafar and got to know that they are hiding in the Thakurdwara area of ​​Moradabad. When the police raided five and a half hours in the evening, Zafar started firing. In retaliation, the police also opened fire. When the Zafar thought that they have been surrounded by the police so they crossed the border and entered Uttarakhand. The UP Police team also reached there and in cross-firing BJP leader and the chief of Jaspur Block, Gurtaj Bhullar’s wife Gurpreet Kaur was killed. BJP leader alleged a larger conspiracy and called for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the incident.

The team of UP Police also reached Bharatpur where the mafia was hiding. ADG Rajkumar of Bareilly Zone told that Mining Mafia hid at the farmhouse of BJP leader Gurtaj Singh in Bharatpur. 

The UP Police personnel were in casual clothes and not in uniforms. In some videos, 10-12 people are seen entering Bhullar’s farmhouse with pistols and there were policemen in plain clothes. Initially, Bhullar’s family mistook the policemen. However, the Moradabad police team introduced itself and asked to hand over the 50 thousand prize mining mafia who had entered the farmhouse.

Bhullar’s family started demanding to call the local police. Meanwhile, the local people started protesting.

While arguing with the family, police officials identified the mining mafias. Cross firing started and at that time BJP leader Gurtaj Bhullar’s wife Gurpreet Kaur was shot in the crossfire.

After the incident, the family caught four people and handed them over to the local police. Angry locals blocked a National Highway, protesting Kaur’s death. Heavy police deployment was done in the area to control the situation.

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In cross-firing five police officials were injured too. Two police officials were shot at while three were injured in other ways in the clashes.

“The accused is a wanted criminal carrying a reward of ₹ 50,000. He escaped from there (Bharatpur village). When our police team reached, they were taken hostage and their weapons were snatched,” Moradabad senior cop Shalabh Mathur said.

Speaking with India Today, Bhullar said, “We want a CBI enquiry to get justice for my wife. We did not use any weapons or fire. Instead, we handed them over to the police.”

“It was a bigger conspiracy. It is a conspiracy of those men who came to attack us,” he said.

He also stated that the perpetrators of the crime were not injured and that they had fled from Kashipur Hospital.

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