jaipur the congress has asked its mlas to recall their resignation letters submitted to the assembly speaker before the start of the budget session on january 23in all 92 congress mlas had signed the letters at udh minister shanti dhariwals residence on september 25 in a bid to prevent sachin pilots candidature as the next cm face in case ashok gehlot was elected as aicc presidentnow both the cabinet ministers dhariwal and mahesh joshi who is also the partys chief whip are reaching out to the mlas asking them to recall their resignations over 90 days have passed since the resignations and it can create technical problems for the mlas if they dont withdraw the letters ahead of the budget session the only solution is to recall the letters a party source said on thursday governor kalraj mishra had pointed out the issue of lawmakers resignation to gehlot when the latter visited him seeking his approval for convening the budget sessionboth the ministers who were involved in the political crisis have been assigned the task of resolving the issue gracefully the party is also worried that since the opposition has already moved the rajasthan high court challenging the validity of the resigned lawmakers it could add to the headache the party source addedmeanwhile deputy leader of the opposition rajendra singh rathore said the state is being run by an illegal government which doesnt enjoy the confidence of the housethere is no provision in the law for withdrawal of resignations the speaker should not allow the mlas who resigned to continue as legislators said rathorehe added that since putting down their papers these mlas have taken full advantage of the state facilities and have taken policy decisions illegallythe names of these mlas should be revealed to the public so that they also know who all have sent their resignations he saidsources in the state congress said the party asked the mlas to take back their resignation letters because of two main developments since the crisis in september since the budget session of the state assembly is scheduled from january 23 the government needs these mlas secondly since rajasthan high court has already sent a notice to the speaker over the pending resignations of the mlas it is necessary that they take them back said a senior congress leaderin discussions that the new party incharge for rajasthan sukhjinder singh randhawa held with the partys leaders in jaipur over the past three days this step emerged as the right and timely one he added