Made to wait, Rajasthan cops finally enter hotel where team Pilot is camping

There is heavy deployment of Haryana police personnel at the Manesar hotel.

There was heavy drama at the Haryana hotel where the dissident Congress MLAs are staying after Rajasthan cops were not allowed to enter the premises by the state police on Friday evening. Made to wait at the gates, the cops were finally allowed to enter the hotel.

A team of Special Operations Group (SOG) of Rajasthan Police arrives at the resort in Manesar, Haryana, where Congress MLAs are staying. (ANI)

Earlier today, the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Rajasthan Police registered two first information reports (FIRs) against two incriminating audiotapes in which a Congress lawmaker is purportedly talking to a middleman and a person named Gajendra Singh about toppling the Ashok Gehlot-led government.

The FIRs were registered on the basis of the complaint filed by Mahesh Joshi, the Congress chief whip of the Rajasthan assembly, after audiotapes surfaced on Thursday evening and went viral on social media amid the political turmoil in state.

The Congress has repeatedly accused Sachin Pilot of being in cahoots with the BJP to topple the state government.

In another development, the Rajasthan High Court on Friday asked assembly speaker CP Joshi to hold off on action against Sachin Pilot and the 18 lawmakers who were issued disqualification notice this week. The court, which was hearing Pilot’s challenge to the disqualification notice, will resume hearing the case on Monday.