Can’t bank only on anti-incumbency to wrest power: Sachin Pilot

NEW DELHI: Fresh from having poached two senior MLAS from Bharatiya Janata Party at a time when the Congress has been losing leaders, Rajasthan Congress president Sachin Pilot told ETthat the grand old party cannot just count on anti-incumbency to bring it back to power.

“Anti-incumbency is not enough. One has to keep at it, continuously and persistently to become an alternative for the people. We are working hard at it, on the ground, engaging with people from all walks of life.

The two seniors have also joined us to work for the people,” Sachin Pilot said. He added that no space must be yielded even when in Opposition and that he was working at that.

Although the assembly elections in Rajasthan are two years away, he is already quite in campaign mode.

He has travelled over two lakh kilometres in the state since he took over as the state president of the party and covered every district mobilising the party cadre and also taking up every issue that needed to be highlighted.

From the incident involving the alleged rape and murder of a 17-yearold Dalit girl, Delta Meghwal, to how the state government failed to regularise Madrasa para teachers, Pilot has been trying to highlight several issues of the electorate’s concern.

“These issues must be taken up and we will continue to raise all issues relevant to the people of Rajasthan. We have been able to do so better with the support and encouragement of the party seniors,” he added.