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Last Updated: June 13, 2023, 16:38 IST
Police use water cannons to disperse the BJP supporters during their protest against the Rajasthan government at Statue Circle near Secretariat office in Jaipur on June 13. (Image: PTI)
Accusing Gehlot of graft, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Kirodi Meena said his party will expose corrupt practices of minister Shanti Dhariwal and scams related to mines and Jal Jeevan Mission in the state
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday held a massive protest against the Ashok Gehlot-led government in Rajasthan over the allegations of corruption. To disperse the BJP workers who gheraoed the state secretariat in Jaipur, police used water cannons as the protestors broke the barricades and created chaotic scenes in the area.
Accusing Gehlot of graft, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Kirodi Meena said his party will expose corrupt practices of minister Shanti Dhariwal and scams related to mines and Jal Jeevan Mission in the state.
Addressing party workers at a public meeting in Jaipur before a march towards the secretariat, Meena claimed there was a scam of Rs 5,000 crore in the Department of Information and Technology (DoIT) but when the Anti-Corruption Bureau wanted permission to investigate, the chief minister refused.
“The BJP will expose a mines scam in the days to come. Also, a scam in Jal Jeevan Mission and corruption cases of UDH minister Shanti Dhariwal will be exposed,” he said. Meena claimed for the first time in the country, Rs 2.31 crore cash and gold were recovered from an almirah at a government building.
A DoIT joint director was arrested last month after the cash and the gold were found in the almirah in the basement of the Yojna Bhawan here.
“Corruption is rampant under the Gehlot government. Sixteen competitive exams were held in one year in Rajasthan and the papers of all of them were leaked. Now, the Enforcement Directorate has come and started investigating, and therefore Gehlot is afraid,” Meena said.
He alleged that after the Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers- 21 paper leak case, the chairman of the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education DP Jaroli was terminated by the government but the Special Operations Group, which investigated the case, did not question him and even gave him a clean chit.
REET-21 was conducted by the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education.
Meena said ED has come one year after the complaint of the REET paper leak case. “The ED has come with full preparations,” he added.
The Rajya Sabha MP said Gehlot should “take off the cloak of honesty”. He reiterated money laundering allegations against Gehlot’s son Vaibhav Gehlot, who is the Rajasthan Cricket Association president.
(with inputs from PTI)
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