The BJP on Wednesday mocked the show of bonhomie between feuding Rajasthan Congress leaders Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot as a ‘political break’ and predicted a swift return to the squabbling and infighting that has plagued the ruling party over the past two years.
“It was (an) assurance to the people of the state that all is well in the Congress… but I believe this is just a political break for the time being. People will hear the same words again… like ‘nakara‘, ‘nikamma‘ and ‘gaddar‘,” BJP lawmaker and spokesperson Ram Lal Sharma was quoted by news agency.
On Tuesday Gehlot and Pilot addressed a joint press conference in praise of party leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, which enters the state Sunday.
That was days after chief minister Gehlot attacked his former deputy.
Gehlot – clearly still furious over multiple challenges to his position by Pilot and his faction, starting with the rebellion in 2020 – called his younger colleague a ‘gaddar‘, or traitor, in an interview to news agency.