The Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) has launched an enormous protest in opposition to the Rajasthan authorities in Jaipur over the allegations of corruption. To cease the protesters from marching to the secretariat, police used water cannons and limitations.
Movies from the protest web site confirmed police making an attempt to disperse the protesters with water cannons.
#WATCH | Police use water cannon to disperse BJP employees protesting in opposition to Ashok Gehlot authorities in Jaipur over alleged paper leak pic.twitter.com/20zqe297kQ
— ANI MP/CG/Rajasthan (@ANI_MP_CG_RJ) June 13, 2023
Accusing Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot of corruption, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Kirodi Meena in the present day stated his social gathering will expose corrupt practices of minister Shanti Dhariwal and scams associated to mines and Jal Jeevan Mission within the state.
Addressing social gathering employees earlier than the protest, Mr Meena claimed there was a rip-off of Rs 5,000 crore within the Division of Info and Know-how (DoIT) however when the Anti-Corruption Bureau wished permission to research, the chief minister refused.
Mr Meena claimed for the primary time within the nation, Rs 2.31 crore money and gold had been recovered from an almirah at a authorities constructing.
The money and gold had been seized from a locked almirah within the basement of Yojna Bhawan final month, following which a joint director of the DoIT was arrested by Jaipur police.
“Corruption is rampant underneath Gehlot authorities. Sixteen papers of aggressive exams had been held in a single 12 months in Rajasthan and all of them had been leaked. Now, the Enforcement Directorate has come and began investigation, and due to this fact Gehlot is afraid,” Mr Meena stated.
Earlier this month, the Enforcement Directorate carried out searches at a number of places in Rajasthan in reference to the examination paper leaks case.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot accused the Centre of misusing its investigative businesses and stated the ED searches within the state had been “anticipated” because the meeting elections are approaching.
He questioned why the ED was “intervening” when the state’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) was doing such a “good job” in investigating the leak of papers of the federal government’s instructor recruitment examination.
The state has witnessed a couple of cases the place it was alleged that examination query papers for recruitment of academics had been leaked to aspirants, together with in 2021 throughout the hiring of academics by the state training board and through final 12 months in a take a look at carried out by the Rajasthan Public Service Fee (RPSC).
The Particular Operations Group (SOG) of the Rajasthan Police, which is investigating the paper leaks, had arrested former RPSC member Babulal Katara, his nephew and driver in April in reference to the senior instructor paper leak case of 2022.
The examination was cancelled after the paper was extensively shared on social media earlier than the graduation of the examination.
