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Rajasthan Minister who alleged he was being surveilled replies to show cause

Rajasthan Minister who alleged he was being surveilled replies to show cause

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Kirodi Lal Meena. File Photo Rajasthan Cabinet Minister Kirodi Lal Meena said on Wednesday that he had replied to a show cause notice issued by the ruling BJP after making an allegation recently that he was under government surveillance and that his phone was being tapped. Mr. Meena’s charge caused a commotion in the State Assembly last week. Admitting that he had made a “mistake,” Mr. Meena did not disclose the contents of his response. “I have submitted my reply for the mistake I made. The mistake is mentioned in the notice given by the party’s State president,” Mr. Meena told journalists here. Mr. Meena, whose resignation from the State Cabinet tendered in June 2024 is yet to be accepted, said disciplinary action over his allegation was an internal matter of the BJP. “It is not for me or any minister or even the Chief Minister to speak on the matter. Only the party’s president will deal with it,” he said. Breach of privacy The February 10 notice, signed by BJP State president Madan Rathore, …

Rajasthan BJP issues show cause notice to minister Kirodi Lal Meena over his phone-tapping allegation – India TV

Rajasthan BJP issues show cause notice to minister Kirodi Lal Meena over his phone-tapping allegation – India TV

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Image Source : PTI/FILE Rajasthan Cabinet Minister Kirodi Lal Meena The BJP Rajasthan unit president Madan Rathore has sent a show cause to state minister Kirodi Lal Meena for “tarnishing” the government’s reputation by alleging that his phone was being tapped, party leaders said on Monday. However, Meena claimed ignorance about it and asserted that he was the party’s “disciplined soldier” and would send his reply within the stipulated time once he received the notice. Meena made the statement during a public meeting after which the opposition Congress had raised the issue in the Rajasthan Assembly, causing embarrassment to the BJP government. Raking the issue, Congress had demanded Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma’s resignation. Leader of the Opposition Tika Ram Jully did not even give a speech on the Governor’s address in protest. Congress MLAs kept raising slogans during the chief minister’s speech. In the show cause notice, the BJP said Meena’s statement tarnished the government’s reputation. “You are a member of the BJP and have been elected MLA from Sawai Madhopur region on the party ticket. You …

In Rajasthan, BJP mandal polls hang fire amid infighting, delay state chief selection | Political Pulse News

In Rajasthan, BJP mandal polls hang fire amid infighting, delay state chief selection | Political Pulse News

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The BJP’s ongoing organisational polls have been delayed in the party-ruled Rajasthan, where the elections of one-third of the mandal presidents have still not taken place due to tussle between various party factions to get their nominees chosen. This has made a cascading impact on the elections of the BJP’s district committee chiefs and that of the state party chief as they have also got delayed. According to the BJP’s constitution, the state party chief can only be elected after at least 50% of the district presidents are named. Similarly, the district president can be elected only following the appointment of at least 50% of the mandal presidents. BJP sources said the party leadership has now directed its Rajasthan unit to complete the process of naming all mandal chiefs to be followed by the appointment of the district presidents. The election of the state party president was to take place on 30 December last year with the mandal and district committees supposed to be in place by November 30 and December 15 respectively, as per …

Rajasthan CM Bhajan Lal Sharma | Tackling teething troubles

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A political life has a way of bringing a measure to things. If not in a starkly spartan way, Bhajan Lal Sharma retains that good country feel to his daily rhythms: up at sunrise, a brief stroll in the sprawling lawns where the two cows he keeps are always indulged with a spot of patrician patting, and then a busy day interspersed with simple, home-cooked vegetarian meals. A calendar bustling with meetings means he often ends up skipping—or delaying—his early dinner. His demeanour, though, is not devoid of rosy reminders of his carefree, younger days when he was fond of eating—he even won a bet once by consuming over two dozen laddoos at a wedding feast without any water in between. In December 2023, no one would have grudged him a few extra sweets when his name was called out, tambola-style, in the game of chance that decided Rajasthan’s chief ministership. He was nowhere in the race: a first-time legislator, he was being pitchforked from near-anonymity to high office. But from that moment of elation, …

Congress treats one family as supreme, BJP people: Rajnath Singh

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Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh chairs the BJP Manifesto Committee meeting ahead of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: ANI Union Minister Rajnath Singh on April 7 asserted that the track record of the BJP Government at the Centre has been “fabulous” as it considers people supreme whereas the Congress treats a family supreme. The BJP, he said, is also committed to fulfilling all the promises made to the people. “The track record of Modi ji‘s politics has been fabulous. And it was fabulous because we treat people as supreme whereas the Congress treats a family supreme,” the senior BJP leader said addressing a public meeting in support of BJP candidate Arjun Ram Meghwal in Kolayat in Bikaner. The Defence Minister said he is pained when the Congress questions the power and valour of the country’s defence forces. “The Congress questions our Army personnel. They ask for proof that they have carried out surgical strike. The whole world has got the proof, only the Congress is not getting it,” he …

Poll-bound Rajasthan | Welfare state

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Amidst a pre-election frenzy of welfare schemes and freebies, the Gehlot regime also enacts a couple of first-in-India bills FOURTH TERM IN MIND: CM Ashok Gehlot distributing social security pension in Sikar. ISSUE DATE: Aug 21, 2023 | UPDATED: Aug 11, 2023 16:13 IST Ascribe it to a genuine feel for the people or to plain shrewdness, but Ashok Gehlot has made social welfare a consistent focus of his administration. A special urgency to tend to the general weal seems to grip the Rajasthan chief minister especially before elections—a time such as now. Whether born of principle or exigency, this bent continues to give Rajasthan some pioneering policy moments. Back in 2011, during his second term, the Free Medicine Scheme was one such. More than an unthinking handout, it was an intervention that answered to a historical need, at a time when increasingly privatised healthcare was bleeding the mass of immiserated citizenry. Crafted around the procurement of generic medicines, it helped break the tyranny of huge mark-ups on branded drugs. Now, the budget session of …

Afternoon brief: Won’t suspend ‘Jan Aakrosh Yatra’ – Rajasthan BJP in U-turn | Latest News India

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Here are today’s top news, analysis, and opinion. Know all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times. Rajasthan BJP chief says ‘Jan Aakrosh Yatra’ over Covid to continue hours after its suspension news The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will continue its ‘Jan Aakrosh Yatra’ in Rajasthan till the central or state government issue an advisory on large gatherings in view of concerns around Covid-19, the Rajasthan BJP president Satish Poonia said on Thursday, announcing the party’s move to reverse its stand on the yatra. Read more Winter session of Parliament ends early amid sparring between govt, opposition The winter session of Parliament concluded early on Friday with both houses adjourned sine die. Ruckus continued in Parliament even on the last day of the session, which began on December 7. It was scheduled to end on December 29. The clash between Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang was among the many issues over which the opposition leaders clashed with the government over the …

BJP’s U-Turn Hours After Suspending Jan Aakrosh Yatra In Rajasthan

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Earlier, BJP had announced to suspend the Jan Aakrosh Yatra in Rajasthan. Jaipur:  Hours after deciding to suspend its “Jan Aakrosh Yatra” in Rajasthan in view of a rising number of coronavirus cases globally, the BJP said it will go ahead with its plan of holding public meetings in assembly constituencies while following the COVID-19 protocol. BJP state president Satish Poonia said there was some confusion regarding the Jan Aakrosh Yatra which has been cleared now and the Jan Aakrosh Sabhas (meetings) will take place as per the schedule. Earlier, the party had announced to suspend the yatra. With an eye on the Assembly polls due next year in Rajasthan, BJP chief J P Nadda launched the ‘Jan Aakrosh Yatra’ in the Congress-ruled state to corner the Ashok Gehlot government on issues related to farmers and governance on December 1. “The BJP has suspended Jan Aakrosh Yatra in Rajasthan in the wake of rising number of COVID-19 cases. For the BJP, people come first before politics. For us the safety of people, their health is …