Politics

The Congress' attack on Shekhawat and some rebel Congress leasers, including MLA Bhanwarlal Sharma, came after two audio clips surfaced pertaining to an alleged conspiracy to topple the Gehlot government.

Four Congress MLAs are among the 32 leaders appointed as chairmen, vice chairmen and members of various state-run bodies wherein the ruling party has tried to strike a caste and regional balance.

Alleging that West Bengal has been turned into a 'police raj' by the Mamata Banerjee government, BJP leader Sayantan Basu said the state government was making attempts to hide the 'truth' of the case by claiming that it was a death by suicide.

Speaking after the Congress announced the sacking of Pilot and his two aides from the state cabinet, Gehlot alleged that that the BJP wanted to repeat what it had done in Madhya Pradesh.

Cracking the whip on the rebel leader, the party also removed his loyalists Vishvendra Singh and Ramesh Meena from the state cabinet.

The body of Hemtabad MLA Debendra Nath Ray was found hanging from the ceiling of a verandah outside a shuttered shop near his home in Bindal village in North Dinajpur district on Monday.

The Congress top brass has gone all out to placate Pilot, who has declared an open rebellion against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.

Pilot has claimed that the Ashok Gehlot government is in minority and that he has the support of over 30 MLAs in the 200-member Assembly.

The plot of allegedly toppling the Congress government in Rajasthan is being probed by the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the state police, which has issued notices to Gehlot and Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot to record their statement.

Terrorists are trying to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere and are targeting political leaders who have become soft targets as they are working extensively in far off and interior places, J&K BJP vice president said.

Some organisations representing the Marathas had recently alleged that the autonomy of the institute was being jeopardised and it was being starved of funds.

Yediyurappa expressed dissatisfaction over the state losing its edge over other states in the last one week, negligence by officials and lack of preparedness to fight the spread of dreaded virus in the coming days.

On Monday, Nadda had attacked the Congress leader for 'not attending a single meeting' of the Parliament's standing committee on defence and accused him of trying to 'demoralise' the nation.

Notably, Gandhi's attack on the Centre came a day after India surpassed Russia to become the third worst-hit nation by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Congress leader also said Rs 2,000 crore was allocated from the PM Cares Fund for procuring 50,000 ventilators with each costing around Rs 4 lakh, but the supply for ventilators are priced at Rs 1.5 lakh only.

Vishnoi is an old party loyalist and, in 1983, was Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) president, and Chouhan served as the wing's state secretary.