Widows of Pulwama assault victims Rohitash Lamba, Jeetram Gurjar and Hemraj Meena throughout a protest in opposition to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, in Jaipur, on March 9, 2023.
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The Congress authorities in Rajasthan is going through heat over the demands raised by the widows of three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, killed in the 2019 Pulwama terror assault, for naming roads and colleges after their slain husbands and altering the norms for giving jobs to their relations. The Opposition BJP’s help to the three ladies has given a political twist to the problem.
The widows of the deceased CRPF jawans, Rohitash Lamba, Hemraj Meena, and Jeetram Gujjar, staged a chronic dharna in Jaipur, first at Shaheed Smarak in the center of town and later exterior the residence of Congress MLA Sachin Pilot. BJP MP Kirodi Lal Meena and a big quantity of social gathering employees accompanied the three ladies on the dharna web site.
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The protesting ladies had been forcibly eliminated and despatched to their houses final week. While the ladies alleged that the guarantees made to them after the loss of life of their husbands weren’t fulfilled, their primary demand pertained to a change in the foundations to facilitate the appointment of any member from their households, and never simply their kids, to the federal government jobs on compassionate grounds.
The matter was raised in the State Assembly on Monday, when Deputy Leader of the Opposition Rajendra Rathore alleged that the Congress authorities was insensitive to the plight of widows of CRPF personnel who had sacrificed their lives. On Tuesday, Nagaur MP and Rahstriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) supremo Hanuman Beniwal raised the problem in the Lok Sabha and demanded the appointment of a high-power committee by the Home Ministry, which controls the para-military forces.
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Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has criticised BJP leaders and accused them of misguiding the individuals and maligning the State’s picture by creating an impression that nothing had been carried out for the widows. Mr. Gehlot stated it could not be applicable to provide jobs to somebody aside from the youngsters of the slain jawans.
Mr. Gehlot affirmed that the bundle given by the Rajasthan Government to the battle widows, together with these of Kargil in 1999, was the most effective in the nation. As half of the bundle, the households had been allotted land and housing, colleges had been named after the troopers, and jobs had been saved reserved for his or her kids. The dependents of the CRPF personnel had already been helped in accordance with the bundle, Mr. Gehlot stated.
A delegation of a few dozen battle widows additionally met Mr. Gehlot on Saturday and prolonged help to the State authorities’s steps, whereas stating that they wished jobs to be reserved for his or her kids once they attained the age of majority. Some of the ladies who took half in the assembly termed the demands of Pulwama widows “wrong” and “against the rules”.
However, the three widows — Manju Lamba, Sundari Devi and Madhubala Meena — alleged that policemen had assaulted them once they went to the Chief Minister’s residence in an try to satisfy him. They additionally sought the intervention of Governor Kalraj Mishra to have their demands fulfilled.
