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Opposition leader Tikaram Jully criticized Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma's silence on delimitation, calling it a sensitive issue impacting Rajasthan's democratic future and seat allocation. He urged an all-party meeting for discussion. Meanwhile, former CM Ashok Gehlot highlighted Congress's contributions to women in leadership, while OBC workers protested the Women's Reservation Bill's lack of quota and delayed caste census.

Congress MLAs in Rajasthan protested against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Assembly, wearing T-shirts with "PM is compromised" to oppose the India-US trade deal. Legislators claimed the agreement would harm farmers and small traders, citing alleged pressure on the PM due to the Epstein files and questioning the government's policies.

rajasthan congress MLAs have demanded action against Sachin Pilot and other rebel MLAs at the Congress' Legislature Party (CLP) meeting held yesterday. State Congress in-charge Avinash Pandey at the CLP meet sought to address the apprehensions and concerns of the Congress MLAs, sources said. Pandey reiterated that the Congress party workers must remain disciplined.

rajasthan congress’s frontal organisation, Seva Dal, has been caught in a controversy over its members singing the national anthem while remaining seated in their chairs.

rajasthan congress President Govind Singh Dotasra has stated that he is not afraid of the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) search of his premises as part of a money laundering investigation. Dotasra has called on the ED to disclose what they found during the search. The ED had searched Dotasra's premises in Jaipur and Sikar in connection with a money laundering investigation related to the recruitment exam paper leak case. Dotasra has called the search an "undeclared emergency" and accused the ED of intimidating and harassing Congress leaders.

AICC Gujarat in-charge and former minister Raghu Sharma MLA has demanded that the Congress leadership should step in to defuse groupism in rajasthan congress before the assembly elections, which are just 6-8 months away. If groupism ends, Congress victory in Rajasthan is certain, Sharma said.

The rajasthan congress will honour corona warriors at the district and block-level on the occasion of party leader Rahul Gandhi's birthday on June 19.

JAIPUR: Dissidence in the rajasthan congress has come to the fore with a state general secretary resigning, alleging neglect of party functionaries.

rajasthan congress on Thursday hit out at the BJP governments in the Centre and state, alleging insensitivity towards women's welfare plans and schemes and claimed that the central grant of Rs 3,000 crore under Nirbhya fund was still unutilized.

Fearing poaching by its dissident group and the opposition BJP, rajasthan congress shifted its MLAs from a luxury hotel in Jaipur, where they had been staying for the past 19 days, to another luxury resort in Jaisalmer. The legislators will stay in Jaisalmer until the assembly session begins on August 14.

The Congress party on Tuesday released its manifesto, which promises to hold a caste survey for informed affirmative action, 10 lakh jobs including 4 lakh separate panchayat level care in government, and a minimum support price guarantee Act in the state along with other guarantees.

Most Dalits, who account for a fifth of the state’s population, had voted for the BJP in the last election. Congress had lost all the 34 seats reserved for SCs

The Congress on Thursday revoked the suspension of two of its MLAs before the CLP meeting at the chief minister’s residence.

The rajasthan congress would begin a state-wide movement from Monday in support of the farmers agitating against the three farm laws implemented by the BJP-led Centre government. The movement would be called "Kisan Samvad" and launched on the Congress foundation day, which is December 28.

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. 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 call an assembly on Aug 14.

The Congress Legislative Party has issued a whip to its MLAs to attend a meeting on Monday in Jaipur and will face disciplinary action if they absent themselves without mentioning a reason, rajasthan congress in-charge Avinash Pande has said. The CLP meeting has been scheduled to be held at 10:30 AM today. Saturday's meeting at Gehlot's residence was attended by 75 MLAs.

Addressing the party workers, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said Dotasra had played his role well as a member of the assembly and deputy chief whip when the party was in opposition. He said people are well-versed with the working style of Dotasra and a positive message has gone to the block level with his appointment.

The rajasthan congress on Wednesday shifted its MLAs as well as independents supporting it to a resort on the outskirts of Jaipur, ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls even as it expressed apprehensions of a plot to “destabilise the popularly elected government in the state.” Sources in the party said that Congress MLAs were being “approached with attractive offers.”

Anirudh Bharatpur, son of former minister and sitting Congress MLA Vishvendra Singh, created a flutter on social media by alleging on Twitter on Monday that his father has become an alcoholic and is "violent" towards his (Anirudh's) mother. He said he has not been in touch with his father - who, he claimed, had "destroyed the businesses of friends supporting me" - for six weeks now. In the evening, he deleted the tweet.