Rajasthan Minister Pratap Khachariyawas on Sunday hit back at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of allegedly spending Rs 50 crore for renovating his official residence.
"The party high command has decided the line of action having thought about the upcoming Chhattishgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh elections. Congress party high command is powerful", said Khachriyawas.
An accused official, Ved Prakash Yadav, has been arrested in the case in which police seized over Rs 2.31 crores in cash and 1 kg of gold biscuits from a basement of the government office in Jaipur, police said on Sunday.
Police on Friday seized over Rs 2.31 crores in cash and 1 kg of gold biscuits from a basement of the government office in Jaipur and detained eight people for questioning, a senior official said.
The district administration on Tuesday demolished 28 "encroachments" of temporary settlements (Kachchi basti) of Hindus displaced from Pakistan who have been residing in the Amarsagar gram panchayat area, 4 km from the district headquarters.
Rajasthan Minister of Food and Civil Supplies Pratap Singh Khachariyawas on Saturday said that Congress got the blessings of Lord Ram and Lord Hanuman in Karnataka elections and BJP's attempts to defame the Congress backfired.
Rajasthan minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas on Friday spoke out against the remarks by fellow Congress leader Shanti Kumar Dhariwal on dissident leader Sachin Pilot, saying one should "refrain" from making such comments.
Speaking to ANI on Wednesday, Khachariyawas said, "The whole problem started with the chief minister's statement. No other leader in the Congress had anything to do with it. The issues raised by Sachin Pilot are important and need to be addressed by the CM and Pradesh Congress Committee (
Cabinet minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas on Tuesday apparently contradicted health minister Parsadi Lal Meena's statement and said that if necessary, the Rajasthan government will step back amid the ongoing protest by doctors in Rajasthan against the Right to Health Bill.
"This behaviour against women and especially widows of those who have sacrificed their lives for our country is punishable and unapologetic. The government will have to take strict action against the police and people involved in this," Pilot told reporters after meeting the women on Tues
However, Rajasthan Minister Pratap Khachariyawas said that the government is always there to provide all possible help to the families of the soldiers who lost their lives in the line of duty.