Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot to Visit Delhi Today, Likely to Meet Sonia Gandhi

Gehlot also held a special meeting with Rajasthan’s ministers at his residence in Jaipur on Tuesday.

Amid political turmoil in Rajasthan, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is expected to visit Delhi on Wednesday, 28 September, to meet Congress party's interim president, Sonia Gandhi, sources said.

This comes a day after the party served show-cause notices to three Gehlot loyalists – Rajasthan ministers Shanti Dhariwal and Mahesh Joshi, and Dharmendra Rathore – for their "grave indiscipline" of organising a parallel meeting with the MLAs and not attending the Congress Legislative Party meeting.

The notices have been issued on the basis of the report submitted by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) observers, Ajay Maken and Mallikarjun Kharge, to Sonia Gandhi.

This comes after 82 Rajasthan MLAs held a parallel meeting at Dhariwal's residence in Jaipur, laying down conditions to the party. The MLAs did not attend the official legislative party meeting convened for passing a resolution authorising the Congress chief to appoint a successor to Gehlot, who was to contest the Congress presidential election.