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Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot Hopes Welfare Schemes Will Help Congress Win Assembly Elections

Rajasthan is slated to have assembly elections later this year. The Congress state unit is facing a tussle between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot.

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Rajasthan CM Ashsok Gehlot
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is hopeful that voters will reelect his government in assembly elections this year because of his welfare schemes. 

Rajasthan is slated to have assembly elections later this year. While Gehlot is confident that welfare schemes will click with people, the state Congress unit is having a publicised tussle between Gehlot and Sachin Pilot, who is publicly protesting against his own party's chief minister. 

Interacting with reporters in Jaipur after a high-level review meeting on the implementation of the budget, Gehlot said the campaign of Congress in Rajasthan assembly elections will be focused on governance, development, and public welfare schemes. 

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Gehlot referred to the "enthusiasm" of the people towards the government's welfare schemes and inflation relief camps. 

He said, "A feeling has risen among the people and I think that this time the people will vote for the Congress...No matter how many slogans they (BJP people) raise, pump in their resources, hold roadshows, make big claims. In the name of religion, in the name of caste, we will not answer them at all. We will do our work.

"The more rhetoric ('laffazi') they (opposition BJP) go on... the public will answer them themselves and will ask them to tell the meaning of their rhetoric. Why are you misleading the country and the state? This theme will work this time. It seems that the public will continue to win the elections this time."

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Gehlot expressed happiness over the progress made in the implementation of various schemes announced in the budget. 

After the meeting, Gehlot tweeted, "A review meeting was held to take stock of the action plan, outline and the current situation of implementing the announcements made in the historic budget of savings, relief, progress literally on the ground."

Gehlot said that necessary instructions were given to the departmental officers concerned. 

The meeting was told that 4,146 budget announcements have been made from 2019 to 2023, keeping all sections of the society at focus. Inflation relief camps are being successfully organized in the state from April 24. So far, more than 4.75 crore Chief Minister Guarantee Cards have been distributed to more than 1 crore families, the meeting was informed.

In the meeting, Chief Secretary Usha Sharma said that in the budget year 2023-24, 1,425 announcements were made keeping the welfare of the youth at the centre, out of which the approval of 736 has been issued.

Even though Gehlot is hopeful, he faces a challenge from his own party leader Pilot, who has given his government an ultimatum. This week, Pilot gave Gehlot government a 15-day ultimatum, saying that if the government does not take action on alleged corruption during the previous Vasundhara Raje-led government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he would launch a widespread agitation. This week, Pilot also completed a five-day march from Ajmer to Jaipur that was also a show of strength. 

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(With PTI inputs)

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