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Rebel Rajasthan lawmakers being moved to BJP’s Karnataka: Congress
Govind Singh Dotasra, the new Rajasthan Congress unit chief, alleged that the special team of the Rajasthan police was made to wait by BJP’s Haryana police unit until the MLAs inside the resort were moved out.
The Congress on Saturday alleged that rebel Rajasthan lawmakers of the Sachin Pilot team currently camping in the BJP-ruled Haryana are now being moved to Karnataka, another BJP state.
Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said that when the Special Operations Group of the Rajasthan police reached the Haryana hotel to question the legislators in the case of audio tapes - where BJP leaders, including Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, can be heard conspiring with MLAs from the Pilot camp to topple the state government - the lawmakers gave the police a go-by. The state police has registered two FIRs in the matter involving audiotapes.
Govind Singh Dotasra, the new Rajasthan Congress unit chief, also alleged that the special team of the Rajasthan police was made to wait by BJP’s Haryana police unit until the MLAs inside the resort were moved out. The police arrived at the hotel on Friday evening to collect voice samples of the leaders heard scheming in the offending tapes about bringing down the Gehlot government.
The Congress spokesperson once again reached out to rebel Congress leader Sachin Pilot, who has maintained that he is not joining the BJP, and underscored that the party doors are not closed on him. At the same time, he questioned why are celebrated BJP lawyers representing him and the dissident MLAs camping in the BJP-ruled state.
A short while earlier, the BJP demanded an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the allegations made by the Congress in Rajasthan that it has audio tapes to prove that the BJP was in collusion with rebel Congress leaders to bring down the Gehlot government.
In another development, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati weighed in on the alleged phone tapping row in Rajasthan and accused chief minister Ashok Gehlot of having acted illegally and called for President’s rule in the state.
