Rajasthan: Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government pledges ‘RSS-mukt’ sarkar

Source: timesnownews.com

Jaipur: Controversy is brewing in Rajasthan as the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government is in the process of identifying employees who are wedded to the RSS ideology. The government is now planning to transfer them to location or posts which are not that significant.

This move comes after the Congress’ crushing defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Speaking on the issue, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy called the move illegal adding that he is ready to provide assistance to any RSS person in the court of law.

“Let them do it and they will face a court case and if any RSS person who wants my assistance then I will be very happy to fly to Jaipur and file a case in Rajasthan High Court,” Swamy said.

He further said that despite Indira Gandhi government banning the RSS, the organization was ultimately exonerated everywhere and the ban was lifted without even an FIR being filed against the organization.

Swamy also slammed Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and called this move a cheap trick by him to please his Italian masters sitting in Delhi.

Meanwhile, NCP leader Majeed Memon came out in support of the CM saying that if Gehlot is making an effort of derecognizing this kind of a favour to the RSS then there is nothing wrong.

“If Ghelot is trying to find out in his administration that underserved people have been placed in a high position that is greater than their worth than there is nothing wrong in this,” said Memon.

In Rajasthan, while the BJP won twenty-four seats, the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party one seat. The grand old party failed to open its account in the state proving that while the party had secured the state in the Assembly elections the people preferred the saffron party MPs in the Lok Sabha.

Another problem for the grand old party in Rajasthan is factionalism with differences cropping up in the party’s top leadership. Supporters of Sachin Pilot are pushing hard for his appointment as the chief minister while Gehlot’s supporters are doing everything to maintain the status quo.

The rise of these two power centres in the state after the Lok Sabha elections has left the bureaucracy bewildered with the opposition BJP increasing the attack on the Congress.

In May another controversy erupted after the Congress government decided to make changes to the biography of freedom fighter Veer Savarkar so as to teach history to students in an ‘honest and right way’.