Rajasthan crisis: Three Ashok Gehlot loyalists get show-cause notice

Congress president Sonia Gandhi deputed senior leaders Ambika Soni and Anand Sharma to talk to Gehlot

The Congress disciplinary committee on Tuesday issued show-cause notices to three key loyalists of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot — Shanti Dhariwal and Mahesh Joshi, and MLA Dharmendra Rathore — who organised a parallel meet of MLAs instead of joining a Congress Legislature Party meeting last weekend.

Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and senior Congress leader Kamal Nath on Tuesday returned to Bhopal after spending barely hours in Delhi, avoiding mediation between rival factions in the Rajasthan Congress. Congress veteran AK Antony, who had announced his retirement from active politics, was asked to return to Delhi to help sort out the