“You’re Taking Sachin Pilot’s Name…”: Ashok Gehlot Slams Union Minister

Jaipur:

Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has been served a court docket discover by Rajasthan Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) in an alleged case of horse-trading regarding the allegations of a conspiracy to drag down the Ashok Gehlot authorities in 2020.

The discover was issued by a Jaipur court docket after the ACB filed a revision petition in search of voice samples of Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.

The minister has been requested to file his reply by July 14, sources have stated. Final yr, a decrease court docket rejected the anti-graft physique’s plea. Subsequently, the ACB filed a revision petition, on which the court docket has now sought Mr Shekhawat’s reply.

Quickly after the discover was issued to Mr Singh, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot launched a scathing assault on the Union Minister, alleging that he together with Congress chief Sachin Pilot tried to dislodge his authorities two years in the past.

Mr Gehlot’s remarks come after Mr Shekhawat at a gathering in Chomu city of Jaipur that if Sachin Pilot had not missed the possibility to vary the federal government in Rajasthan, then water would have come by means of the Japanese Rajasthan Canal Challenge.

“Now you take the identify of Sachin Pilot that he missed the chance, which reveals you had been in connivance with him,” Mr Gehlot stated.

The Chief Minister stated Shekhawat stored on saving himself however ultimately acquired the court docket discover. “What’s the drawback in giving voice samples? ” he requested.

Amid a insurrection led by the then Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot in 2020, three audio clips had emerged on-line by which some insurgent Congress leaders seemed to be in dialog with a BJP chief, discussing bribes to topple the Ashok Gehlot authorities.

The Congress had claimed that the audio clips had voices of Gajendra Singh, insurgent Congress MLAs Bhanwar Lal Sharma and Vishvendra Singh.

Congress chief Mahesh Josh then had registered FIRs with the Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Particular Operations Group (SOG) on the idea of the audio clips.