Ajit Singh Mehta accused Sachin Pilot of not being among people of constituency ..
When pitching his assembly poll contest with congress leader sachin pilot as a “local-versus-outsider” battle, BJP’s Tonk candidate Ajit Singh Mehta cites rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot’s “post is not leaving him” remark to claim that Pilot does not have the “chief ministerial data-face advantage” that he had in 2018. Mehta, who was an mla from this constituency from 2013 to 2018, has been handed the tough assignment by the bharatiya janata party (BJP) to take on former rajasthan deputy chief minister Pilot, who won from here over his bjp rival Yoonus Khan in 2018 by a record margin of more than 54,000 votes.Mehta said “The most important thing is that the election is one of a local versus an outsider. It was a different matter during the last election as he (Pilot) was a chief ministerial data-face and the president of the state unit of his party. Today, he is also fighting the election for becoming an mla and so am I,” Mehta told PTI while campaigning in Sankhana village here on Friday.“The chief minister (Gehlot) has said he wants to leave the post but the post is not leaving him. Entire rajasthan knows that the chief minister’s data-face is decided (in the Congress). He (Pilot) is fighting to become an mla and for the first time, facing a local person. It is an election of a local versus an outsider,” the bjp leader said. His remarks came weeks after Gehlot, at a press conference in Delhi, said he wants to leave the chief minister’s post but it is not leaving him and probably, may not leave him in the future too. The remarks had come amid a long-running power tussle between Gehlot and Pilot. “In the last five years, after winning by more than 54,000 votes, he (Pilot) did not participate in the good and bad times of the people even 54 times,” he said.