Former Union Minister and one of the most seasoned Congress leaders Kamal Nath has been roped in by the party to play the role of a mediator in resolving the situation arising in the party’s Rajasthan unit after Sachin Pilot’s day-long fast put pressure on the Ashok Gehlot Government for action against the alleged corruption under the previous Vasundhara Raje-led BJP Government.

Nath, along with Congress general secretary in-charge organisation KC Venugopal, met Pilot to discuss his side of arguments and the former Rajasthan deputy CM conveyed to them that his fast was only directed at action against corruption under Vasundhara Government and was not “anti-party” at all. Congress Rajasthan in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa met party chief Mallikarjun Kharge for the second time in two days to discuss the Rajasthan issue. He had also met Rahul Gandhi at his residence to discuss the matter.

Leaders close to Pilot claimed the Congress has been raising the corruption plank in the Adani matter and in Karnataka polls and Pilot’s action was in line with that.

As far as the issue of “indiscipline” is concerned, the Pilot side has also raised questions as to why no action has been taken against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot loyalists who had defied party’s directive for holding a legislature party meeting last year.

They have also raised questions as to why Randhawa’s statement called the fast anti-party even before it took place.

Sources close to Pilot said there has been no physical meeting between him and Randhawa. The Congress leadership is caught in a peculiar situation and wants to find a middle path to the issue, party sources said. Pilot reached Delhi on Wednesday, a day after he observed a fast in Jaipur.  Both Gehlot and Pilot were keen on the Chief Minister’s post when the party won in the State Assembly elections in 2018.