Newsmaker: Rajasthan Speaker Joshi's bluntness will be used to good effect

Joshi, the new Speaker of the Rajasthan Assembly, was earlier given extensive party responsibilities by the Congress after the 2014 Lok Sabha polls

Had C P Joshi, the then Union minister for road transport and highways and railways, not lost from his constituency, Nathdwara, by one vote in the 2008 Assembly election, it might have been hard to decide whether Joshi or Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, would have taken over the reins of the state.
 
The two are chalk and cheese. Joshi is irascible, blunt and hates being asked for favours. Gehlot is moderate, gentle and unaggressive. They are also not particularly fond of each other. In fact, at a meeting where Gehlot was present, Joshi remarked, soon after the