JAIPUR: A meeting of
the Rajasthan Congress Legislature Party
has started at a hotel on the outskirts of Jaipur where party legislators and supporters are holed up, sources said.
It was to start around 10am but got delayed by three hours as the party's core group chalked out its strategy ahead of the CLP meeting, Congress sources said.
The meeting was called after
Rajasthan governor
Kalraj Mishra
gave his consent to a proposal by the
Ashok Gehlot Cabinet to call an
assembly session
from August 14.
The governor had turned down three earlier proposals, saying if the government wanted the assembly summoned at a short notice it should state that it planned to hold a vote of confidence. Or, it should give 21 days' notice to call and assembly session, Mishra had said.
Gehlot is caught in a tussle for power with his now-sacked
deputy Sachin Pilot
, who leads a group of 18 other dissident
Congress MLAs
.
On July 12, Pilot declared open rebellion against Gehlot by claiming that his government was in a minority and he has the support of 30 Congress MLAs.
And on July 13, Congress legislators and supporters were huddled into the hotel. They have been camping there since then.
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