Speculation is rife in Congress about leaders who could join Pilot

Maharashtra Congress leader Milind Deora, who is not altogether happy with his current lot in the party, is also being spoken of as someone in touch with the Bharatiya Janata Party

MLAs chased

Even as Sachin Pilot’s exit from the government kept the political pot boiling in Rajasthan, two MLAs of a regional party threatened to steal the limelight after alleging that they were chased by the state police and were virtually held hostage – purportedly at the behest of the ruling party – when they tried to leave Jaipur. Rajkumar Roat, Bhartiya Tribal Party (BTP) legislator from Chorasi, and his colleague Ram Prasad claimed they were tailed by the police when they tried driving from their MLA hostel to Dungarpur, 500 km from Jaipur. One of them also posted a video, alleging