In what can be seen as a case of infighting in the Rajasthan state unit of the Congress, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has said that the state party chief and his deputy in the government Sachin Pilot should take responsibility for his son Vaibhav Gehlot's defeat in the Lok Sabha polls.
Vaibhav Gehlot lost the Jodhpur seat lost by 2.7 lakh votes to BJP's Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, as the Congress suffered a second successive clean sweep in Lok Sabha polls, despite wresting the state Assembly in December last year.
In an interview to ABP News, Gehlot said, “Sachin Pilot said we would win with a huge majority. He said we have six MLAs (legislators) and we have done very good campaigning there... Sachin Pilot should take responsibility for at least that (Jodhpur) seat.”