Taking a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has said the Opposition party had accepted defeat by giving tickets to seven MPs for the Assembly election. He said the Congress would come back to power because of its welfare schemes which had benefited large sections of the State’s population.
Mr. Gehlot was at Sardarshahar in Churu district on Tuesday to unveil the statue of former Congress MLA, the late Bhanwarlal Sharma, on his first death anniversary. He said the BJP’s decision to field the sitting MPs as the candidates for Assembly election was its “biggest failure” and a proof that the party had already accepted defeat.
Mr. Gehlot said the BJP was unable to decide a Chief Ministerial face and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had declared the party’s symbol, lotus, as its face in the State. “Can a lotus become the Chief Minister? It is strange,” he said.
