Rajasthan / Amit Shah tried to topple the government in Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot also lashed out at Gajendra Shekhawat

Rajasthan | Hitting out at the BJP for last year's political crisis in Rajasthan, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday said Rajasthan created history by thwarting attempts to topple the state government, which would help save democracy in future. Gehlot alleged that Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other Union ministers in the NDA government were involved in a conspiracy to topple the state government. He said without naming that the voice of a Union minister from Rajasthan was already there in the audio tape.

Addressing reporters at the Congress office in Jaipur, the CM alleged that a conspiracy was hatched in Shah's office and Dharmendra Pradhan's residence to topple the government. "It was a BJP conspiracy, which was exposed in North Block, inside Amit Shah's office... inside Dharmendra Pradhan's house and his associates, who had made all the arrangements... .'

Asked that Shah had said during his recent visit to Jaipur that the BJP would not destabilize the state government, Gehlot questioned, "Is it in his hands?"

"They tried but failed. Their own MLAs did not support them. Two planes were sent to Jaipur to take the BJP MLAs out of the state but only one plane could take off and the other plane remained empty," he said. He said that the Congress government got the support of the people, BSP, independent MLAs and party MLAs and hence his government survived.

A day after his OSD appeared before the Delhi Crime Branch in connection with the phone tapping case registered on a complaint by Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Gehlot reiterated that he should give a voice sample to clarify that the tapes contained Whose voice is it?

In July-August last year, an audio clip by former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot during the rebellion went viral on social media. The audio clip was purportedly a conversation between Union Minister Shekhawat and some Rajasthan Congress leaders, including an MLA and a cabinet minister. It was alleged that the leaders were conspiring to topple the elected Gehlot government in Rajasthan.

Without naming Shekhawat, the CM said, “He (Shekhawat) filed a case against Lokesh Sharma (OSD to CM) in Delhi. Look at their thoughts. How (he) became a Union minister."