Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and senior Congress leader Kamal Nath was called in to cool tempers in the two factions of the Congress in Rajasthan one led by Ashok Gehlot and the other by Sachin Pilot.
The duo is locked in a standoff, in an unintended offshoot of the ongoing election of the Congress president.
Sources in the Congress, who know Gehlot, say he may not file a nomination for the president's post at all so that he gets to keep his chief ministership. He is supposed to file a nomination on Tuesday.
MLAs 'loyal' to Gehlot had resigned en masse over the weekend, though the Rajasthan Assembly Speaker's office asserted it had not received any resignation letters.
This has led the Congress high command to derive that the resignations were orchestrated by the Gehlot camp. Rahul Gandhi hinted that the one-man one-post rule applied to Gehlot and he would have to give up the CM's post if he became party president.
"This is a rebellion! Mrs (Sonia) Gandhi is extremely angry at what is happening in Rajasthan. She may order disciplinary action against the MLAs," said a former Congress Working Committee (CWC) member.
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