Crucial CLP meet to be held at Ashok Gehlot\'s residence amid leadership change buzz
Deccan ChronicleJaipur: A meeting of the Congress Legislature Party in Rajasthan will be held at Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's residence here on Sunday evening, amid the leadership change buzz following the announcement that he will contest the party president poll. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed Mallikarjun Kharge as observer along with general secretary in-charge Rajasthan Ajay Maken.They will attend the meeting of the Congress Legislature Party of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. Party leaders in the state said the meeting will clear whether the observers are coming to convey a message of the high command on the name of new chief minister or going to take views of the legislators on the next chief minister. Gehlot became the first person to announce his candidature for the AICC presidential poll on Friday and said former president Rahul Gandhi has told him that no one from the Gandhi family should become the next party chief.