Rashtriya Loktantrik Party MP Hanuman Beniwal has accused
former Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje
of coming to the rescue of
CM Ashok Gehlot
and his government in the ongoing power struggle within the Congress.
He attacked Raje in a series of tweets. “Former CM
Vasundhara Raje making a strong effort to save the minority government of Ashok Gehlot, Raje has also made calls to many Congress MLAs,” he claimed.
“Vasundhara called her close friends in Congress. One Jat MLA each from Sikar and Nagaur districts asking to keep a distance from @SachinPilot”, tweeted the MP from Nagaur, who is an alliance partner of BJP.
In another tweet, Beniwal said according to media reports, Gehlot has claimed that he had call recording (of the alleged deal). “Tapping phone is a violation of the rights given by the constitution, in a clean
democracy
, Gehlotji is doing such tricks which are not worthy of him,” he tweeted.
Beniwal, a former BJP MLA, was kicked out of the party due to his antagonistic relations with the former chief minister. After parting ways with BJP, he contested as an Independent from the Khinvsar assembly seat in Nagaur in the 2013 Assembly election and won. He formed
the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party
in 2018, ahead of the assembly elections in 2018. His party won in three Assembly seats, including his own.
Considering his popularity among the youth in his community, the BJP formed an alliance with him during the
Lok Sabha
elections. He won the Nagaur parliamentary seat.
Beniwal’s allegation comes at a time when Raje has been keeping a studied silence on the political development in her home state.
Pilot had lashed out at the Gehlot government for moving the Supreme Court to appeal against a high court order in a bid to save the bungalow allotted to Raje at 13, Civil Lines despite the party opposing such a provision for former chief ministers. Pilot had also attacked Gehlot for not holding an enquiry in the mining scam when Raje was the CM, accusing him of an unholy alliance with her.
After Sachin Pilot questioned the allotment of bungalow to Raje, two of her loyalists on Thursday questioned Pilot for holding a government bungalow at Delhi. They said former chief minister was allotted bungalow as a senior legislator and not as former chief minister.
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