New Delhi, July 13 -- As Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday flexed muscles during the Congress Legislature Party meeting, throwing the show open to media claiming around 100 MLAs still in his fold, sources in the Bharatiya Janata Party claimed, they too took Sachin Pilot's assertion of "more than 30 MLAs' support" with a pinch of salt.

This is why no top BJP leaders met Pilot and instead deputed three BJP intermediaries to "keep a close watch" on the developments. Sources say, the three leaders are BJP General Secretary Bhupender Yadav, Pilots's former colleague Jyotiraditya Scindia and BJP MP Om Mathur.

While BJP officially maintains that there has been no meeting between BJP leaders and Pilot and sources in BJP claim nor an...