Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, June 13:
To stop the hundreds of protesting BJP workers from marching to the secretariat, the police fired water cannons at them. The police and BJP supporters protesting the alleged corruption in the state government’s social welfare programmes got into a fight.
According to party MP Kirodi Meena, the saffron party marched through Jaipur to “reveal the corrupt practises of minister Shanti Dhariwal and the’scams’ related to mining and the Jal Jeevan Mission project in the state. He also discussed the purported paper leaks that have tainted the state’s public tests.
“The BJP will expose a mining scam in the days to come. Also, a scam in the Jal Jeevan Mission and corruption cases of Urban Development and Housing Minister Shanti Dhariwal will be exposed,” Meena said, addressing the party workers before the march.
Meena alleged there was a scam worth Rs 5,000 crore at the Department of Information and Technology (DoIT), but the chief minister refused to allow the Anti-Corruption Bureau to conduct an investigation.
He further claimed that for the first time ever in the nation, a cupboard within a government building yielded Rs 2.31 crore in cash and a kilogramme of gold. Last month, the Jaipur Police detained a joint director of the DoIT after recoveries were made from Yojna Bhawan’s basement.
“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 (ED) has come and started investigating, and Gehlot is afraid,” Meena said.
In the paper leaks case, the ED examined a number of places in the state earlier this month. Gehlot downplayed the agency’s action, claiming that the searches were “anticipated” given that the state will shortly hold elections.
After the Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers-21 paper leaked, Meena said that the Special Operations Group, which was looking into the case, did not probe DP Jaroli, the head of the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education, and instead gave him clean chit, Meena alleged.
“The ED has come with full preparations (to probe the paper leak case),” he added.
The Rajya Sabha MP reiterated the money laundering accusations against Gehlot’s son Vaibhav Gehlot and advised him to “take off the cloak of honesty.”
