Congress General Secretary Sachin Pilot in ‘Aap Ki Adalat’
This time Congress General Secretary Sachin Pilot participated in India TV’s superhit show ‘Aap Ki Adalat’. During this, Rajat Sharma asked Sachin Pilot about the defeat of Congress in Rajasthan Assembly elections that the leaders of your party say that if you had not clashed with Ashok Gehlot and both had fought the elections together, perhaps such a situation would not have happened. On this Sachin Pilot said that we lost in all three states. I am very sorry and sad that we lost the elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
“There were 21 seats in 2013, I was not responsible for that.”
On the question of defeat in Rajasthan, Sachin Pilot said that there are 200 assembly seats in Rajasthan and we could win 70 seats in the 2023 elections. As far as the allegation that the party lost because of me is concerned, let me clarify that in 2013 our party had won only 21 seats. Then I was not responsible for the defeat? It is very easy to say this and if we had won the elections, then what would we have said? We all worked hard together in this election.
“Our vote percentage is only 1.5 percent less than BJP’s”
Pilot further said that for the last 30 years, the tradition in Rajasthan has been for BJP for five years and Congress for five years. So we said that we should work hard to break this pattern and we had some issues, I accept that. But we sat and talked again. Kharge ji, Rahul ji, we all sat. But unfortunately we could not convince the public. But I want to tell that our vote percentage has not decreased. We got about 40 percent votes which is 1.5 percent less than BJP. So it is not that we have completely lost the elections. Or our morale has fallen. Okay, defeat is victory. Out of 200 seats, we were able to win 70.
“BJP lost the by-elections within three weeks.”
Not only this, Sachin Pilot told in AAP’s court that after the elections were over, BJP formed the government there. But within three weeks the by-election (Karanpur) took place. In this by-election, BJP candidate (Surendra Pal Singh), who was made a minister by BJP, lost to Congress candidate (Rupinder Singh Cooner) by about 12 thousand votes. So within three weeks the public showed that people who were not even MLAs were made ministers yet they lost the elections. We all had gone there to campaign.
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