JODHPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has slammed Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on the difficulty of water scarcity within the state. “Jodhpur MP Shekhawat is the Union Jal Shakti minister. In spite of that the people of his home constituency have been suffering and he is not worried at all,” Gehlot stated in his public tackle in Barmer on Friday. Earlier, the Centre used to supply 90 per cent funds for water tasks, which have now been lowered to half, he claimed. Gehlot stated the state authorities is now funding even works just like the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project. “We can have our share of water from Gujarat, Punjab and Haryana. But this minister is least bothered,” Gehlot charged.
Referring to Shekhawat’s alleged involvement within the Sanjeevani Credit Co-operative Society rip-off, the chief minister requested Shekhawat to return ahead and discuss to the depositors of the society. Gehlot claimed that he even spoke to Shekhawat’s mentor Bhagwan Singh Rolsahabsar and advised him that his disciple is allegedly not returning cash of the depositors. “But nothing happened. He might also be under some compulsion for not exhorting Shekhawat to return the money,” he added. Shekhawat has dismissed allegations linking him to the credit score society and has additionally filed a defamation case in a Delhi court docket towards Gehlot. The Rajasthan chief minister additionally spoke in regards to the welfare schemes by his authorities, saying because the BJP has no reply to those schemes, they’re defaming the Congress and deceptive individuals.
At one other public assembly in Pali district’s Rohet, Gehlot additionally slammed the Centre for not taking any stand on the continued protests by wrestlers towards outgoing WFI president Brij Bhushan Singh. “Our wrestler daughters have been sitting in Delhi since long. But the Centre has nothing to do with that. All the medal winner players of the country are disappointed today,” Gehlot added.
The Delhi Police has registered two FIRs towards Singh. The FIRs lodged on the idea of complaints from six ladies wrestlers and the daddy of a minor narrate a number of alleged cases of sexual harassment, inappropriate touching, groping, stalking and intimidation by Singh at completely different occasions and locations, together with in overseas international locations, over a decade.
