Rajasthan CM Gehlot sacks state minister Rajendra Gudha for his remarks on legislation and order
By PTI
JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday sacked Rajendra Gudha as minister of state, hours after he cornered the state authorities over legislation and order within the meeting.
Gudha held cost as Minister of State for Sainik Kalyan (Independent Charge), Home Guard and Civil Defence, Panchayati Raj and Rural Development.
A Raj Bhavan spokesperson stated, “Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot recommended Governor Kalraj Mishra to dismiss a member of the council of ministers Rajendra Gudha in the evening. The governor has accepted this recommendation with immediate effect.”
Gudha on Friday questioned his personal authorities’s efficiency in reining in crimes in opposition to girls, whilst his friends slammed the Manipur violence.
During the dialogue on the Rajasthan Minimum Income Guaranteed Bill, 2023, within the Assembly, Congress MLAs waved placards on the Manipur violence.
The protest, nonetheless, didn’t go down nicely with Gudha, who sought accountability from his personal authorities on crimes in opposition to girls.
“The way we have failed to provide security to women in Rajasthan and atrocities on women have increased, instead of raising the issue of Manipur, we should introspect,” Gudha stated within the meeting.
Leader of Opposition Rajendra Rathore latched onto Gudha’s assertion and slammed the state authorities, saying Rajasthan tops the chart for crimes in opposition to girls.
Rathore later requested Gehlot, who can be the house minister, to take accountability for the “poor” state of legislation and order in Rajasthan.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal responded to the fees, saying that the state authorities has equipped the House with the statistics that present that the utmost variety of atrocities have been dedicated on girls throughout BJP rule.
Hours later, after a inexperienced sign from the social gathering’s excessive command, Gehlot despatched a advice to the governor to sack Gudha.
Following his sacking, Gudha informed reporters that he was punished for talking the reality. “Rajasthan is at the number one position in crimes against women. What did I say? I got the punishment for speaking the truth,” he stated.
BJP Rajya Sabha MP Kirodi Meena sided with Gudha and stated he spoke the reality within the meeting.
“Law and order in Rajasthan has deteriorated and crimes against women have increased multifold. The minister had expressed what is true,” he stated.
Gudha, who’s amongst six MLAs who received the 2018 meeting elections on a BSP ticket earlier than defecting to the Congress in September 2019, was inducted as a minister in November 2021. He represents Jhunjhunu’s Udaipurwati constituency.
Gudha and different MLAs who received on a BSP ticket had supported Gehlot in July 2020, throughout his tussle together with his then-deputy Sachin Pilot, which had led to a political disaster.
However, in the previous few months, Gudha has made statements in favour of Pilot. He has additionally induced embarrassment to the Congress-led authorities together with his current statements.
In a extensively circulated video a number of days in the past, he was heard saying that Gehlot and Pilot have been operating after him, so there should be some high quality in him.
Gudha additionally launched a scathing assault on the Congress authorities and alleged that the dispensation had surpassed Karnataka’s “40 per cent commission BJP government” in corruption.
While addressing a rally in help of Pilot in May, Gudha stated, “Hamari sarkar ka alignment kharab ho gaya (our government’s alignment has been disturbed). The record of corruption has been broken. There was an issue of 40 per cent corruption in Karnataka. Our government has surpassed it,” he had stated.
He additionally met AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi throughout his current go to to the state.
Both Houses of Parliament have been adjourned for the second day in a row on Friday following vociferous protests over the Manipur violence by opposition MPs.
The Monsoon session began on Thursday, a day after a horrific video of two girls being sexually assaulted and paraded by a mob on May 4 in a Manipur village went viral.
‘Sacked for telling the reality’
The BJP on Friday accused Gehlot of sacking Gudha for telling the reality and added that “it shows how serious the ruling Congress is about the issue of crimes against women.”
Reacting to the minister’s sacking, BJP IT division head Amit Malviya stated in a tweet in Hindi that Gehlot eliminated Gudha from his cabinet for telling “the truth.”
“This shows how serious Congress is about harassment of women,” the BJP chief charged.
Senior BJP chief and Union minister Gajendra Singh Sekhawat additionally focused the Rajasthan chief minister and stated in a tweet in Hindi, “Telling the truth is forbidden in Gehlot’s regime.”
“The chief minister does not have the courage to accept the truth. When his minister Rajendra Gudha ji told the truth in the assembly, Gehlot ji felt so bad that he removed him from the post itself,” Shekhawat stated. With this, Gehlot has warned his colleagues in the event that they converse the reality, they won’t be spared, the Union minister charged. “Intimidating one’s own comrades, gagging them will also be called oppression,” he added.
JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday sacked Rajendra Gudha as minister of state, hours after he cornered the state authorities over legislation and order within the meeting.
Gudha held cost as Minister of State for Sainik Kalyan (Independent Charge), Home Guard and Civil Defence, Panchayati Raj and Rural Development.
A Raj Bhavan spokesperson stated, “Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot recommended Governor Kalraj Mishra to dismiss a member of the council of ministers Rajendra Gudha in the evening. The governor has accepted this recommendation with immediate effect.”googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Gudha on Friday questioned his personal authorities’s efficiency in reining in crimes in opposition to girls, whilst his friends slammed the Manipur violence.
During the dialogue on the Rajasthan Minimum Income Guaranteed Bill, 2023, within the Assembly, Congress MLAs waved placards on the Manipur violence.
The protest, nonetheless, didn’t go down nicely with Gudha, who sought accountability from his personal authorities on crimes in opposition to girls.
“The way we have failed to provide security to women in Rajasthan and atrocities on women have increased, instead of raising the issue of Manipur, we should introspect,” Gudha stated within the meeting.
Leader of Opposition Rajendra Rathore latched onto Gudha’s assertion and slammed the state authorities, saying Rajasthan tops the chart for crimes in opposition to girls.
Rathore later requested Gehlot, who can be the house minister, to take accountability for the “poor” state of legislation and order in Rajasthan.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal responded to the fees, saying that the state authorities has equipped the House with the statistics that present that the utmost variety of atrocities have been dedicated on girls throughout BJP rule.
Hours later, after a inexperienced sign from the social gathering’s excessive command, Gehlot despatched a advice to the governor to sack Gudha.
Following his sacking, Gudha informed reporters that he was punished for talking the reality. “Rajasthan is at the number one position in crimes against women. What did I say? I got the punishment for speaking the truth,” he stated.
BJP Rajya Sabha MP Kirodi Meena sided with Gudha and stated he spoke the reality within the meeting.
“Law and order in Rajasthan has deteriorated and crimes against women have increased multifold. The minister had expressed what is true,” he stated.
Gudha, who’s amongst six MLAs who received the 2018 meeting elections on a BSP ticket earlier than defecting to the Congress in September 2019, was inducted as a minister in November 2021. He represents Jhunjhunu’s Udaipurwati constituency.
Gudha and different MLAs who received on a BSP ticket had supported Gehlot in July 2020, throughout his tussle together with his then-deputy Sachin Pilot, which had led to a political disaster.
However, in the previous few months, Gudha has made statements in favour of Pilot. He has additionally induced embarrassment to the Congress-led authorities together with his current statements.
In a extensively circulated video a number of days in the past, he was heard saying that Gehlot and Pilot have been operating after him, so there should be some high quality in him.
Gudha additionally launched a scathing assault on the Congress authorities and alleged that the dispensation had surpassed Karnataka’s “40 per cent commission BJP government” in corruption.
While addressing a rally in help of Pilot in May, Gudha stated, “Hamari sarkar ka alignment kharab ho gaya (our government’s alignment has been disturbed). The record of corruption has been broken. There was an issue of 40 per cent corruption in Karnataka. Our government has surpassed it,” he had stated.
He additionally met AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi throughout his current go to to the state.
Both Houses of Parliament have been adjourned for the second day in a row on Friday following vociferous protests over the Manipur violence by opposition MPs.
The Monsoon session began on Thursday, a day after a horrific video of two girls being sexually assaulted and paraded by a mob on May 4 in a Manipur village went viral.
‘Sacked for telling the reality’
The BJP on Friday accused Gehlot of sacking Gudha for telling the reality and added that “it shows how serious the ruling Congress is about the issue of crimes against women.”
Reacting to the minister’s sacking, BJP IT division head Amit Malviya stated in a tweet in Hindi that Gehlot eliminated Gudha from his cabinet for telling “the truth.”
“This shows how serious Congress is about harassment of women,” the BJP chief charged.
Senior BJP chief and Union minister Gajendra Singh Sekhawat additionally focused the Rajasthan chief minister and stated in a tweet in Hindi, “Telling the truth is forbidden in Gehlot’s regime.”
“The chief minister does not have the courage to accept the truth. When his minister Rajendra Gudha ji told the truth in the assembly, Gehlot ji felt so bad that he removed him from the post itself,” Shekhawat stated. With this, Gehlot has warned his colleagues in the event that they converse the reality, they won’t be spared, the Union minister charged. “Intimidating one’s own comrades, gagging them will also be called oppression,” he added.
