Jaipur, Apr 28 (PTI) Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot hit again at Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Friday for calling him “Ravan”. Referring to Shekhawat’s alleged involvement within the Sanjeevani Credit Co-operative Society rip-off, Gehlot stated, “If I am Ravan, you become Ram and return the investors’ money.” He additional challenged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief, saying, “If you throw stones at me, I will use those to build houses for the poor.”
Addressing a gathering after visiting an inflation aid camp in Rawatsar city of Hanumangarh, Gehlot stated Shekhawat’s buddies are in jail in reference to the rip-off and the Union minister can be more likely to go to jail. He stated if Shekhawat is responsible, both he ought to resign on ethical grounds or Prime Minister Narendra Modi ought to sack him.
At the BJP’s Jan Aakrosh rally in Chittorgarh on Thursday, Shekhawat stated, “If you want to end (the rule of) Ashok Gehlot, this Ravan of politics in Rajasthan, raise your hands and resolve to establish Ram Rajya in the state.”
Reacting to those remarks, Gehlot on Friday stated, “Nowadays, Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and other BJP leaders have started abusing me. Am I Ravan? You (Shekhawat) looted 2.5 lakh people in the Sanjeevani Society and they got ruined. Your friends are in jail. You can also go to jail anytime.”
The Jodhpur bench of the Rajasthan High Court stayed Shekhawat’s arrest in reference to the rip-off just lately. The Union minister has filed a felony defamation case in opposition to Gehlot in a Delhi courtroom for remarks linking him with the rip-off.
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Referring to the excessive courtroom’s keep on Shekhawat’s arrest, Gehlot stated, “He has taken a stay from the high court. He used to say that I am not an accused at all…. If you are not an accused, why did you go to the court? Why did you get bail?”
The chief minister additional stated, “You can get bail. You are an accused. You are a central minister, so either resign on the basis of morality or Prime Minister Modi should sack you. Why have you kept such a corrupt person in your cabinet?”
Gehlot stated, “He (Shekhawat) says Ashok Gehlot is Ravan…. Okay, I am Ravan, but you become Ram. Pay the money of these 2.5 lakh people.”
He accused Shekhawat of robbing individuals and shopping for farmhouses in different nations and stated he ought to return the cash of these poor individuals by promoting all of the properties of the Sanjeevani Society and people in his possession.
The victims of the Sanjeevani rip-off met the chief minister a number of occasions. Referring to this, Gehlot stated, “These people met me thrice. Tears welled up in my eyes. Now, those associated with the BJP are abusing me. My job is to serve.”
“If you throw stones at me, I will use those to build houses for the poor. That is my thinking. I will get hospitals built. It is not my thinking that one cannot criticise and if one does, he will go to jail,” the Congress chief stated.
