NEW DELHI: The sensational boycott by loyalist MLAs of Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot of the legislature party meeting convened to select his successor has raised a question mark about the Congress presidential election in which the satrap is seen as the leadership's choice and the putative party chief.
The unforeseen event led by the ultimate party loyalist stunned all, with people in Congress circles discussing two possibilities - that it was a revolt of a man humiliated by the leadership which decided to pick his successor while he was in the CM's post; or that it was all a "fixed match" designed to put an aggressive aspirant Sachin Pilot in his place by underlining his limited acceptability in the organisation.
Whatever the truth, the development has cast a long shadow on the Congress presidential polls.
