Jaipur, July 15 (TIWN) Without taking the name of Sachin Pilot who was sacked on Tuesday as the PCC chief and deputy chief minister of Rajasthan, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said that the Dy CM was himself engaged in a deal to topple the government and he has all the proof about it.

“Horse trading was being done in Jaipur, we have the proof. We had to keep people at a hotel for 10 days, if we had not done that, the same thing that is happening in Manesar now would have happened back then,” Ashok Gehlot was reported as saying by a news agency.

Gehlot’s statement follows his former deputy Sachin Pilot’s denial of planning the Congress government’s downfall in conjunction with the opposition party, the BJP. Sachin, who is camping with several of his loyal party MLAs at a Manesar hotel, also declared that he was not joining the BJP. His statement was a counter to Gehlot camp’s persistent claims that Pilot had fallen trap to a BJP plot to overthrow the Rajasthan government.