'Failed In Women's Safety': Rajasthan Minister Sacked For Remarks In Assembly, BJP Slams CM Gehlot

Rajasthan Minister Rajendra Gudha criticised the Congress govt over recent incidents of crimes against women in the state. Following his remarks in the State Assembly, he has been sacked from the cabinet.

File photo of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Congress leader Rajendra Gudha

Source : PTI | Twitter/@RajendraGudha

Rajasthan Governor on Friday accepted with immediate effect the recommendation of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to sack state minister Rajendra Singh Gudha from the state cabinet, Raj Bhawan informed, as per news agency ANI. This comes after Gudha criticised the Congress government over recent incidents of crimes against women in the state. He questioned his own government's work in tackling the crimes against women, even as his colleagues slammed the Manipur violence.

During the discussion on the Rajasthan Minimum Income Guarantee Bill 2023 in the state Assembly, Congress MLAs waved placards over the Manipur violence, but the protest did not go down well with Gudha, who demanded accountability from his own government on crimes inflicted against women.

"The way we have failed to provide security to women in Rajasthan and atrocities on women have increased, instead of raising the issue of Manipur, we should introspect," Gudha said in the state assembly.

#WATCH | Rajasthan Minister & Congress leader Rajendra Singh Gudha says, "It is true & should be accepted that we have failed in women's safety. Instead of Manipur, we should look within ourselves that atrocities on women have increased in Rajasthan."

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— ANI MP/CG/Rajasthan (@ANI_MP_CG_RJ) July 21, 2023

Leader of the Opposition Rajendra Rathore criticised the state government saying Rajasthan tops the chart of crimes against women. Cabinet minister Rajendra Gudha himself is stating the reality of atrocities being done on sisters and daughters in Rajasthan. According to Article 164(2) of the Constitution, the cabinet works on the basis of collective responsibility, and the state of a minister is considered to be that of the entire cabinet, Rathore later tweeted.

He also asked Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, also the home minister of the state, to take responsibility for the poor state of law and order in Rajasthan.

CM Gehlot Doesn't Have Courage To Accept The Truth: Union Minister Gajendra Shekhawat

The Bharatiya Janata Party criticised CM Ashok Gehlot for sacking the minister saying he "does not have the courage to accept the truth".

"Speaking the truth is forbidden in Gehlot's rule! CM does not have the courage to accept the truth! When his minister Rajendra Gudha ji told the truth in the assembly, Gehlot ji felt so bad that he removed him from the post. Mr. Gehlot has warned his colleagues in this way, if you speak the truth, you will not be spared! Intimidating one's own comrades, sealing their lips, this too can be called oppression," Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat tweeted.

Arun Singh, BJP Rajasthan Incharge, said that the dismissal shows that CM Gehlot believes his government will be voted out. "To act against someone who is speaking the truth shows that the priority is not to work on government's shortcomings, fix the law and order situation, and 'jungle raj'," he added.

As per news agency PTI, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal responded to the charges saying that the state government has supplied the House with the statistics that show that the maximum number of atrocities were committed on women during BJP rule.

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