‘Forgive, forget and move on’: Sachin Pilot speaks on Ashok Gehlot's past barbs, 2020 rebellion and more

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Rahul Gandhi. In an exclusive interview with PTI, Pilot was about Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's past remarks directed at him. Sachin Pilot said, "Leave it! Who said what...I can be responsible for what I have said or not said.

We should maintain dignity in political discussions." He added that it's time to move on and that "we need to forget and move forward". "Whoever said all those words you mentioned, I did not respond in kind because it is not the way I am built and we now have to move on, let bygones be bygones, whatever was said, we need to forget and move forward. It is not about individuals or positions or someone's statements now.

It is about the country and the party," Pilot was quoted by PTI as saying. Sachin Pilot said the issues that he raised in 2020 were important for the party and people, and that the situation today is different. He said this while responding to a question on the rebellion he led against the Rajasthan government led by Ashok Gehlot in 2020 and the events of September last year when Gehlot loyalist did not allow a legislature party meeting to take place.

He explained the difference and said, "There was a time when the Rajasthan government did not have a Dalit minister, today we have four Dalit ministers, workers who struggled against five years of Vasundhara Raje government, went to jail, faced lathi charges, those people should be rewarded, not by giving power and positions but by appreciating them, involving them in decision making, they becoming stakeholders in the government of the day. So that has happened now." He said the AICC at that point had made a committee to look into all the issues that were raised and "I am happy that we moved forward". The Congress fielded Ashok Gehlot