New Delhi: Even as the Gehlot government firefights the big political crisis, the Income Tax sleuths on Monday conducted raids a the houses of Congress leaders Dharmendra Singh Rathore and Rajiv Arora, known to be close confidants of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
Five premises linked to the two leaders were raided in Jaipur and Kota over allegations of “tax evasion”, reports said.
Rajiv Arora, vice president of the party’s Rajasthan unit, and Dharmendra Rathore were raided hours after Gehlot administration denied any threat to government in a late-night press briefing.
Rajasthan government chief whip Mahesh Joshi on Monday condemned the income tax raids on premises linked to two Congress leaders.
“I condemn this. The raids are uncalled for and intended at threatening but we are not going to be distracted or scared by this. “Entire country is watching this,” Joshi said.
Congress MLA, Mahender Chaudhary said today that the BJP will not be successful in its attempts to topple the Congress government in Rajasthan and that all party MLAs and its alliance MLAs are with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
“BJP will not be successful in its attempts to topple Congress govt in Rajasthan. All our MLAs and our alliance MLAs are with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. All of them will be attending the meeting of Congress Legislative Party today,” said Chaudhary.
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has blamed the BJP for attempting to destabilise the State government by poaching MLAs, Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot has been camping in Delhi to speak to the party leadership regarding the political turmoil in the State.
