Express News Service
JAIPUR: Two heavyweights of Rajasthan politics – CM Ashok Gehlot and Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat – are overtly ranged towards one another today. Rajasthan CM Gehlot has fired a recent salvo at Gajendra Singh Shekhawat by concentrating on the Z security just lately given to the union minister.
Addressing mediapersons in his dwelling district of Jodhpur, CM Gehlot mentioned, “Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has taken Z security from the central authorities. What was the state of affairs that he was given Z security? If he was in peril from anybody, he ought to have informed us earlier and we’d have offered him security. It appears that as a result of worry of SOG arrest within the Sanjivani Co-operative case, security has been offered to him.”
On a go to to Jodhpur, CM Gehlot even met the victims of the 953 crores Sanjivani Credit Co-operative rip-off on the Circuit House on Sunday. While expressing their hardships and ache, the victims of the Sanjivani Co-operative credit score rip-off demanded assist from the state authorities and mentioned that after investing crores of rupees, they’ve been stumbling door to door for years for their cash. The victims alleged that Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat was concerned within the matter, after which the Chief Minister assured justice to the victims. After assembly the victims, Gehlot accused Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh of getting hyperlinks with the Sanjeevani Credit Co-operative Society, which had embezzled traders’ cash.
CM Gehlot mentioned, “He (Shekhawat) ought to perceive the struggling of those victims and provides again the misplaced quantity to all these victims.” Gehlot mentioned that Shekhawat is an accused and that he ought to make clear the state of affairs on this matter. CM mentioned that Shekhawat has taken Z class security solely as a result of he’s an accused within the rip-off and he was afraid of being arrested by SOG.
CM Gehlot has typically attacked Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on numerous points lately. Both the distinguished leaders come from Jodhpur and within the final Lok Sabha polls, Shekhawat had defeated CM Gehlot’s son and RCA President, Vaibhav Gehlot. In the previous couple of years, CM Gehlot has been persistent in his demand for getting a nationwide standing for ERCP which is able to present water and profit a dozen districts of Eastern Rajasthan. CM Gehlot has been nudging the BJP to take up the matter with the PM and as Shekhawat is the Union Jalshakti Minister and in addition the MP from Jodhpur he has ceaselessly been on the receiving finish of Gehlot’s assaults.
Now, with the CM talking concerning the Sanjivani matter too, it’s clear that these two points will make Shekhawat politically weak as Gehlot will certainly increase these points frequently within the election yr in keeping with political observers.
However, in a pointy response to CM Gehlot’s newest assault, Union Minister Shekhawat asserted, “I’ve additionally come to know that the CM is making remarks about me. Surely he has some information of Law. If he thinks that those that have some security cowl can’t be arrested, then what can I say? I’ll reply to all his queries when the necessity arises.
More than 1 lakh individuals invested crores of rupees within the Sanjivani Credit Co-operative Society, which later grabbed the traders’ cash. The SOG had registered an FIR in August 2020 on the grievance of the individuals as a rip-off of over 9 hundred crores was uncovered within the investigation. The Society’s managing director Vikram Singh has been arrested within the case and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Vikram Singh have been enterprise companions for a few years.
Transactions price lakhs of rupees additionally got here to gentle from the accounts of Vikram Singh within the financial institution accounts of Shekhawat and his relations. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat ended his partnership with Vikram Singh earlier than changing into an MP. Clearly, in election yr each situation can be used to attain political factors. And security cowl for a Union Minister is now solely the newest one as Rajasthan strikes in the direction of elections later within the yr.
