Ashok Gehlot: The magician who could be Rahul's first preference as CM

There is no dearth of Congressmen who think that if the Congress scores a narrow-margin victory in Rajasthan, Gehlot would be Rahul's first preference as chief minister

Ashok Gehlot got a lucky break in the Congress during early 1970s when Indira Gandhi’s son, Sanjay, was calling the shots. Sanjay was promoting another Gehlot, Janardhan, a wrester who had humbled a mighty Bhairon Singh Shekhawat in 1972 from Gandhi Nagar in Jaipur. As luck would have it, Sanjay lost affection for giant killer Janardhan Gehlot, a Kshatriya, and his cronies quickly replaced him with another Gehlot from the Mali (gardener) community. Ashok was made National Student Union of India (NSUI) head of Rajasthan in a very special way when a biker carried his letter of appointment from Delhi