Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, while addressing the media after attending the assembly proceedings and the legislative party meeting, has made a scathing attack on the BJP government of the state and the Centre. He has raised many serious questions regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Ajmer, the deteriorating law and order situation in the state and the state of democracy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Former CM Gehlot made a big claim regarding his visit to Ajmer. He said that out of the 19 colleges that the Prime Minister is coming to inaugurate in Ajmer, 18 colleges were built during the tenure of the Congress government. Gehlot alleged that the present government is only misleading the public in the name of ‘2 years versus 5 years’ and is claiming most of the work done during the Congress rule as its own.
Circle on law and order and stuck projects
Expressing concern over the law and order of the state, Gehlot said that incidents like robbery, dacoity and murder have become common in the state, but the government is avoiding discussing it in the House. Along with this, he accused the BJP government of stalling projects of public interest. Giving the example of ‘coaching hub’, he said that the Congress government had created a coaching hub to save the city from traffic jams, but the present government has not yet shifted the coaching institutes there, due to which the situation of jam persists in the city.
‘The situation in the country is becoming like that of China and Russia’
Responding to the controversial case of former Tonk BJP MP Sukhbir Singh Jaunpuria taking back a blanket from a Muslim woman, Gehlot termed it as the ‘mentality’ of BJP. Describing the current situation of the country as serious, he said that India is now moving towards a situation like China and Russia and democracy is being destroyed here.
Gehlot also accused the central government of keeping the Election Commission (EC), judiciary and bureaucracy under pressure. Hitting back at BJP’s ‘Opposition-free India’ slogan, he said democracy cannot be imagined without opposition; The opposition may be a political rival, but not the enemy.