Jammu, Nov. 28 -- What provoked Ashok Gehlot's belligerence was Sachin Pilot's participation in the

Bharat Jodo Yatra with Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi in Madhya Pradesh.

Gehlot was also aware that Rajasthan assembly Speaker C P Joshi had met Rahul

in Maharashtra.

BY PRAKASH BHANDARI

The battle between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot has intensified after Gehlot's scathing

attack on Pilot during an interview on the NDTV television news channel last week, calling Pilot gaddar (traitor) and a saboteur who tried

to topple the very government in which he was the DCM.

Gehlot's remarks were promptly condemned by senior party leaders with Congress spokesman Jairam Ramesh noting that the chief

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