Close on the heels of Congress leader Sachin Pilot’s Jan Sangharsh Yatra and his ultimatum to the Ashok Gehlot government, the party’s Rajasthan in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Saturday said no one would be expelled but those who left the party in the past had not fared well. “You all know the condition of the ones who left the Congress,” Mr. Randhawa said.
“The Congress never wants to expel anyone, especially the senior leaders. We respect every person and never want to remove those who have spent a long time [in the party],” Mr. Randhawa told reporters outside the airport here. He said the dissidents should raise their issues within the party to bring them to the notice of all responsible leaders.
Asked about Mr. Pilot’s five-day yatra from Ajmer to Jaipur, Mr. Randhawa said it was his “personal march” and the Congress had nothing to do with it. “The yatra should be taken out, but launching it just before the voting in Karnataka was not appropriate... I don’t consider it a good thing,” he said.
