BJP Offered Rs 25 Crore To Rajasthan Cong MLAs: Gehlot

BJP offered Rs 25 crore to Rajasthan Cong MLAs: Gehlot says attempting Madhya Pradesh story, yet our MLAs ‘alert and united together’.The Congress on Wednesday accused the BJP of endeavors to destabilize the Rajasthan government with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot asserting that some of the Congress MLAs were offered Rs 25 crore each.

Gehlot’s announcement of BJP offered Rs 25 crores to congress MLA came hours after the Congress took its MLAs to a Jaipur resort for a meeting in wake of the polls to three seats of the Rajya Sabha in the state on June 19. Guaranteeing an overwhelming exchange of money to Jaipur, Gehlot said there were reports about the BJP’s arrangement like that of Madhya Pradesh, and some of the Congress MLAs were offered Rs 25 crore in real money with Rs 10 crore ahead of time.

In any case, the party MLAs were ‘alert and joined together’, he stated, including that the state of the individuals who left the Congress to join the BJP was bad. He likewise focused on PM Narendra Modi, charging that the Rajya Sabha polls were deferred under tension in light of the fact that the BJP couldn’t poach MLAs in Rajasthan and Gujarat.

About the meeting with the MLAs, Gehlot said it was productive and they will meet again on Thursday. Prior in the day, Congress’ national representative Randeep Singh Surjewala, who showed up in Jaipur to go to the meeting of the Congress MLAs and independents, said ‘rehashed death’ of the open order has become the BJP’s character.

The BJP’s connivance in Rajasthan won’t succeed, he stated, including that the Congress MLAs are ‘bold’, consequently, they won’t fall into any allurement and the BJP will get the ‘right answer’ through the popular government. Focusing on that the congress party has a flat out lion’s share, he said nobody can ‘rout the open command or vote based system’.

Charging an offer to poach the party MLAs and the independents backing the Gehlot government, government chief whip Mahesh Joshi too sent a composed protest to the DG, Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB). He looked for activity against ‘distinguished’ components for the degenerate lead and endeavors for destabilizing the government. “It has gone as far as anyone is concerned that like Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, endeavors are being made to destabilize the government in Rajasthan,” Joshi said in the grumbling.

In any case, he didn’t indicate who is making the endeavors. ACB DG Alok Tripathi said the move will be made on the objection. In the midst of this, the MLAs who were called at the  CM’s Residence at night for a meeting for the Rajya Sabha polls were taken to the Shiv Vilas resort on the Delhi national highway in Jaipur, where the meeting was held.

“The meeting was productive today. The MLAs were approached to go this evening and we will meet again tomorrow,” Gehlot told journalists after the meeting on Wednesday night. AICC general secretary Avinash Pande and the party’s Rajya Sabha applicant from Rajasthan K C Venugopal will likewise stay present in the meeting on Thursday.

State BJP president Satish Poonia said the Congress in Rajasthan is “feeling shaky”. “Their own home isn’t all together. They don’t confide in their MLAs,” Poonia said. Congress has selected KC Venugopal and Neeraj Dangi for the Rajya Sabha polls scheduled for June 19 while the BJP selected Rajendra Gehlot and Onkar Singh Lakhawat.

In the assembly of 200, the Congress has 107 MLAs, including six the individuals who absconded to the gathering from the BSP a year ago. The gathering appreciates the help of 12 of the 13 Free MLAs in the state.