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Referring to Shekhawat’s alleged involvement in the Sanjivani Credit Co-operative Society scam, the Chief Minister asked Shekhawat to come forward and talk to the depositors of the society. (File photo/ IANS)
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot claimed that earlier the Center used to provide 90% of the funds for water projects, which has now been reduced to half
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has targeted Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on the issue of water shortage in the state.
“Jodhpur MP Shekhawat is the Union Jal Shakti minister. Despite this, the people of his home area are troubled and he is not worried about it at all.
He claimed that earlier the Center used to provide 90% of the funds for water projects, which has now been reduced to half.
Gehlot said that the state government is now also funding works like the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project.
“We can take our share of water from Gujarat, Punjab and Haryana. But this minister is the least bothered”, alleged Gehlot.
Referring to Shekhawat’s alleged involvement in the Sanjivani Credit Co-operative Society scam, the Chief Minister asked Shekhawat to come forward and talk to the depositors of the society.
Gehlot claimed that he also spoke to Shekhawat’s guru Bhagwan Singh Rolsahabsar and told him that his disciple was allegedly not returning depositors’ money.
But nothing happened. He added that he may have had some compulsion to force Shekhawat not to return the money.
Shekhawat has denied the allegations of linking him with the credit society and has also filed a defamation case against Gehlot in a Delhi court. The Chief Minister of Rajasthan also talked about the welfare schemes by his government, as BJP has no answer for these schemes, they are defaming Congress and misleading people.
At another public meeting at Rohat in Pali district, Gehlot criticized the Center for not taking any stand on the ongoing protest by wrestlers against outgoing WFI president Brij Bhushan Singh.
“Our wrestler daughters have been sitting in Delhi for a long time. But the Center has nothing to do with it. Gehlot said that all the medal winning players of the country are disappointed today.
The Delhi Police has registered two FIRs against Singh.
The FIR, based on complaints by six women wrestlers and the father of a minor, details several incidents of sexual harassment, inappropriate touching, groping, stalking and intimidation by Singh at different times and places over a period of more than a decade. Alleged cases are described.
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