The MLAs who have been inducted to assuage Pilot’s feelings would know that they are in the Rajasthan cabinet not at the pleasure of CM Gehlot but their leader Pilot. Scindia quit the Congress with complaints along the same lines as Himanta Biswa Sarma. Both were once considered close associates and ‘friends’ of Rahul Gandhi. Parallels are often drawn between Scindia and Pilot. The BJP returned to power as Scindia left the Congress with 25 MLAs. One and a half years after the Congress returned to power in Madhya Pradesh, Scindia ran out of patience and joined the Congress in 2020. His chief ministerial ambitions were spurned by the Congress leadership. In Madhya Pradesh, Jyotiraditya Scindia faced the same predicament. Sarma joined the BJP and proved critical in ensuring an electoral sweep for the party-led coalition not only in Assam but in the entire Northeast. He was snubbed, as Himanta Biswa Sarma later said, by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who allegedly preferred playing with his pet to addressing the Assam leader’s grievances. In Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma, the current chief minister, was with the Congress and sought the Congress command’s nod for his chief ministerial ambition ahead of 2014 assembly polls. The Congress has suffered a loss of power due to the tussle between two power centres, particularly in Assam and Madhya Pradesh. To other MLAs, accommodation of Pilot’s demands could be a signal that he is the future siding with whom may pay richer dividends post-2023 Rajasthan Assembly election. He expects other MLAs who accompanied him to Gurugram during the rebellion to be accommodated in corporations or some boards. But this also means that Pilot represents the future of Rajasthan Congress. The Congress leadership would expect him to drop his spears of rebellion. To Pilot, his concerns have been addressed.
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