Rajasthan Assembly session convened on August 14th: Governor

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Jaipur: The Rajasthan political crisis between Governor Kalraj Mishra and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot ended on Wednesday, Governor fixed a date for a special house session from August 14th instead of July 31st which requested by Ashok Gehlot.

Governor Kalraj Mishra accepted the cabinet’s revised proposal; its fourth time late in the evening on instructed the authorities to make arrangements for the special session with adequate protection against Covid- 19. Governor Kalraj Mishra rejected the cabinet’s three proposals for asking Assembly session on July 31st in six days. State Parliament Affair Minister Shanti Dhariwal said to the reporters, we had sent our first proposal on July 23rd.

Treating that, as the starting point, we now meet the required notice period for the house to convene from August 14th. According to the Congress sources, all supporting MLAs of Gehlot would remain corralled in the Jaipur hotel where they have been staying till the house session. The end game came after another roller-coaster day that seemed to be heading towards a stalemate until a meeting between the Gehlot and the Governor in the afternoon set the stage for a resolution of the dispute.

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot I am going to have tea with Governor and ask him what he wants. But you need not worry; our Government is stable, said CM, at an event marking Govind Singh Dotasra’s appointment as the new PCC Chief. The Governor’s role is just to sign; the file goes and comes back with his signature.

For the first time a Governor has raised questions like this, I will make up for your loss with interested, do not worry. While returning the cabinet’s third proposal earlier in the day, the Governor had said, if the Government has taken decision to call the Assembly session deviating from the General Rule, under what difficult and extreme circumstances it has been done.

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