It was meant to be a routine post-Budget press conference, but Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot delivered another bolt from the blue taking his detractors by surprise. Using the occasion to reiterate his claim to the chief ministership of Rajasthan, Mr Gehlot said people in the state, during the elections, were asking for him to be made the chief minister. "It was Ashok Gehlot and no other," he said.