Rajasthan Congress Chief Sachin Pilot calls new state BJP chief ‘sacrificial lamb'
- Details
- Category: Indian Politics
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 04 July 2018 13:10
Rajasthan Congress Chief Sachin Pilot calls new state BJP chief ‘sacrificial lamb'
Days after the BJP appointed Madanlal Saini as the party’s Rajasthan President, Congress’ Sachin Pilot has called him a ‘compromise candidate’ and a ‘sacrificial lamb’ that was made to take up a job no one was willing to, in the face of imminent defeat.
“He is, at best, a compromise candidate because we all know that the leadership in Delhi wanted someone else. The CM was against it and there was a high voltage struggle over this. BJP, in fact, took so long to find a suitable candidate because they know they will lose after five months and that person will have to pack his bags and leave. So, they couldn’t find a willing candidate to be a sacrificial lamb. They have found somebody now but I don’t think it will make any difference. Sadly, the choice of candidate came down to caste configurations as opposed to individual capacity or his contribution to the party,” Pilot told ET in an interaction in Delhi.
He accused Vasundhara Raje of making several trips to Delhi –– not to seek special funds for the state but instead to bargain for her candidate. While the CM and her secretariat were busy with the lobbying, governance and administration were hit. “Tribals, dalits and women are the biggest victims of this. The highest atrocities against tribals are in Rajasthan; crime against Dalit’s are No.2 in India; and on rapes, Rajasthan is No.3 in India. There is not one word of reassurance or sympathy from the CM, not one strong assertion saying that no woman will be hurt. If you tell your bureaucrats that lynching, rapes, vigilantism will not be tolerated, willtheynotimplement it? But if you have another interest- land mafia, sand mafia, mining mafia… and the interest is to protect your own chair, the state will go down a spiral,” : Pilot said.
Source: Economictimes