Union Minister faces FIR over ‘Ravan’ jibe in direction of Ashok Gehlot

On Saturday, an FIR was registered in direction of Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh over his alleged ‘Ravana’ remarks in direction of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot at a rally two days previously. It was lodged on a grievance filed by former Congress MLA Surendra Singh Jadawat.

“I have filed a police complaint tonight against Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat for using such derogatory language against the chief minister of Rajasthan. He tried to outrage religious feelings while addressing a BJP rally,” he educated.

The FIR was filed under sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 153-A (promoting enmity between completely totally different groups on grounds of religion, race, and so forth.), 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts imagined to outrage reli­gious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or reli­gious beliefs), 500 (defamation) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to impress breach of the peace) of the Indian Penal Code.

The FIR alleged that on April 27, the BJP held a gathering in a public space the place the BJP lawmaker served as a result of the keynote speaker and delivered a speech imagined to ‘incite’ people. He provoked animosity and circulated lies in direction of Ashok Gehlot, the ‘popular’ chief minister. He insulted the latter by calling him the ‘Ravana of politics’ in an effort to jeopardise his reputation, as per the grievance.

In response to the jab, the CM yesterday claimed that the Union Minister’s associates have been imprisoned in reference to the rip-off and that he would most likely moreover wind himself behind bars. The Congress chief moreover demanded his eradicating from the Union cabinet from the centre. “If I am Ravan, you become Ram and return the investors’ money,” he proclaimed.

While addressing Bharatiya Janata Party’s Mahaakrosh rally in Chittorgarh on April 27, Gajendra Shekhawat likened the Congress stalwart to ‘Ravana’ (the demon king in Ramayana) whereas urging people to throw the incumbent state authorities out throughout the upcoming assembly elections.

“If you want to end (the rule of) Ashok Gehlot, this Ravana of politics in Rajasthan, raise your hands and resolve to establish Ram Rajya in the state,” he acknowledged.

Both Ashok Gehlot and Gajendra Shekhawat have been at loggerheads over the Sanjivani Credit Cooperative Society rip-off. The former has publicly charged the latter with worrying throughout the rip-off.

The veteran BJP member sued the Congress CM for defamation in a Delhi court docket docket for associating him with the scandal, which the Rajasthan Police are at current wanting into. According to the authorities, the Sanjivani Credit Cooperative Society in Rajasthan is accused of embezzling a whole bunch of people’s wages.

His arrest in relation to the scandal had not too way back been postponed by the Jodhpur bench of the Rajasthan High Court. Yesterday, the extreme court docket docket moreover took on report the clarification by the state authorities on calling him a perpetrator throughout the case.