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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took the “internal democracy” line when asked about a Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s recent defiance to the party’s plan to make him national chief. “In our structure there is clarity. We are not a dictatorship. We like discussion,”\u00a0Mr Gandhi said, with Mr Gehlot seated next to him.<\/p>\n

Pressed on what action, if any, the party will take after Mr Gehlot’s loyalists publicly opposed replacing him, possibly, with Sachin Pilot, Mr Gandhi insisted, “There is no indecision. It happens in a party. It has happened in Rajasthan; it’s OK.”<\/p>\n

Factionalism will not hurt the party’s prospects the Rajasthan elections due in a year, he claimed, “Zyada nuqsaan nahin hona chahiye <\/em>(There should not be much damage). We have support among the common people. We fight elections on the back of our party workers at the grassroots. That’s our way.”<\/p>\n

About who’ll lead the party in the state polls, he said, “Ask (Mallikarjun) Kharge ji<\/em>. He is the party president.”<\/p>\n

Mr Kharge, the first non-Gandhi Congress chief in two decades,\u00a0won the chiefship election with the Gandhis’ backing only after their first choice Ashok Gehlot didn’t go along with the plan to take him national.<\/p>\n

Mr Gehlot, 71, even called Sachin Pilot a “gaddar <\/em>(traitor) who will never become chief minister” over his failed bid of 2020 to get his chair.\u00a0At present, though, the two leaders \u2014 separated by age and ambition \u2014\u00a0have an uneasy truce after Rahul Gandhi’s emissaries intervened.<\/p>\n

Mr Gandhi was today speaking to the media at Dausa \u2014\u00a0an area from where Sachin Pilot’s father won many elections \u2014 where his Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir Yatra today completed 100 days.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have received overwhelming response in Rajasthan. I had thought the party was strong in Kerala, but the response in fact kept improving as we moved through Maharashtra, Karnataka\u00a0and so on \u2014 which the media is not showing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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