'BJP Adds Fuel To Fire': CM Gehlot Hits Out At Tejasvi Surya For Provoking Situation In Karauli

BJP's Nyay Yatra to meet the riot victims was stopped before reaching Karauli. After this, there was a lot of ruckus on the Dausa-Karauli border.

Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot (File photo: AFP)

New Delhi: Amid the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has come out on the streets to surround the Ashok Gehlot government of the state regarding the Karauli riots, Rajasthan Chief Minister Gehlot has launched an attack on BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Thursday saying, "These people came to further provoke the situation".

"The name is Tejasvi Surya but look for what they came here...Incident in Karauli is unfortunate, I already said that these people came to further provoke the situation...we were worried that Karauli-like incidents shouldn't happen in other places," said CM Gehlot, as reported by news agency ANI.

The name is Tejasvi Surya but look for what they came here...Incident in Karauli is unfortunate, I already said that these people came to further provoke the situation...we were worried that Karauli-like incidents shouldn't happen in other places: Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot pic.twitter.com/nvBIgdVI9u

— ANI MP/CG/Rajasthan (@ANI_MP_CG_RJ) April 14, 2022

BJP's Nyay Yatra to meet the riot victims was stopped before reaching Karauli. After this, there was a lot of ruckus on the Dausa-Karauli border.

"In other states where riots broke out, houses were demolished by govts. Neither PM nor CM has a right as such where without any investigation such an action can be taken. Only the law has prerogative to do so & it should take its own course," added Gehlot.

In other states where riots broke out, houses were demolished by govts. Neither PM nor CM has a right as such where without any investigation such an action can be taken. Only the law has prerogative to do so & it should take its own course: CM Ashok Gehlot pic.twitter.com/LrmHRJcKhj

— ANI MP/CG/Rajasthan (@ANI_MP_CG_RJ) April 14, 2022

BJP has been continuously accusing the administration of lax attitude and unilateral action in the nuisance case after a motorcycle rally was taken out from the area, mischievous elements pelted stones and then some shops were also set on fire on the occasion of Nav Samvatsar. 

District Collector Rajendra Singh Shekhawat has been transferred 12 days after the disturbance at Karauli on April 2. Banswara District Collector Ankit Kumar has been appointed as the new District Collector on the post of Karauli District Collector.

A major reshuffle has been done in the bureaucracy in Rajasthan, under which 69 IAS officers have been transferred. In the transfer list, five districts including Karauli have been changed to collector and three divisional commissioner. Apart from this, according to the order issued by the Personnel Department, 7 IAS officers have been given additional work. At the same time, two RAS officers have been changed. The collectors of Pratapgarh, Banswara, Alwar and Jalore have also been changed.