jaipur with infighting in congress deepening in rajasthan independent legislators in the state publicly reiterated their faith in the leadership of chief minister ashok gehlot on wednesdaythe legislators convened a meeting here as gehlot and his former deputy sachin pilots supporters have been sparring since the past fortnight over long pending cabinet expansion and political appointments in the stateof the 13 independent legislators 12 attended the meeting as mla baljeet yadav could not reach the independents said all attempts to destabilise the state government would be given a befitting reply as was done after pilots revolt last julyit is the prerogative of the chief minister to decide when to expand his cabinet and who should be included it is not in the interest of the people of rajasthan to dictate terms to him and make a practise of exerting pressure this meeting leaves it to the cm to take a call on every issue sanyam lodha independent mla from sirohi said at a press conference after the meeting at the circuit housesachin has been fortunate to be born in the family of a leader like rajesh pilot he got everything at a young age said lodha he never tasted defeat in life it defeat happened with him for the first time on the issue of being the cm and then for the second time during the rebellion he will take time to learn said lodhareplying to the charge that he was getting restless to be a minister lodha said we are people who swept floors for congress and pasted posters for nsui if sonia gandhiji tells us to work as legislators none of us will demand anything we are ready to make all kinds of sacrificesof the 13 independents 12 are congress rebelsin response to pilot camps charge that congress did not seek independents support as they were party rebels lodha said soon after the state election the aicc and the state leadership contacted us we were made associate members of congress in the presence of rahul gandhi during the 2019 lok sabha elections the rajasthan government got into a crisis after that they pilot supporters are no one to question usthe meeting was earlier tipped to include six bspturnedcongress legislators too but they were later dropped as it would have depicted these mlas as separate from the congressstill rajendra gudha one of the six mlas reached the meetings original venue hotel jaipur ashoka a rtdc property gudhas presence was objected to by a couple of independent mlas and the meeting venue was hurriedly shifted to the circuit houselodha said the meeting was convened to ask for improving governance in the state filling posts of patwaris and gramsevaks immediately and initiating a process to regularise contractual employees we urge all nonbjp parties to unite and launch an agitation against the centre to protest rising prices of cooking gas diesel and petrol we demand pm narendra modi to fill 15 lakh posts in the government of india congratulating cm gehlot for