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  • Days after his car goes missing, RLP MLA Narayan Beniwal gets threat letter

    By PTI

    JAIPUR: Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) MLA Narayan Beniwal has received a threat letter at his residence in Khinvsar, Nagaur, days after his car went missing from Jaipur, police said.

    No case has been registered in the matter yet, but efforts are no to identify the person who dropped the letter at the legislator’s residence, they said.

    “Footage from CCTV cameras installed around the house is being examined,” Khinvsar Deputy Superintendent of Police Vinod Chhipa said.

    Talking to reporters, Beniwal said, “The initials in the letter are ‘Jai SOPU’. The letter said bad times have started for me since the day my SUV went missing. The sender threatened to finish me soon.”

    SOPU or Students Organisation of Punjab University is an outfit alleged to have links with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.

    Earlier, Narayan Beniwal’s brother and Nagaur MP Hanuman Beniwal targeted the Congress government in the state over the law and order situation.

    “Due to the poor law and order situation in Rajasthan, criminals have become fearless. This is why even people’s representatives are getting threats these days,” he said.

    JAIPUR: Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) MLA Narayan Beniwal has received a threat letter at his residence in Khinvsar, Nagaur, days after his car went missing from Jaipur, police said.

    No case has been registered in the matter yet, but efforts are no to identify the person who dropped the letter at the legislator’s residence, they said.

    “Footage from CCTV cameras installed around the house is being examined,” Khinvsar Deputy Superintendent of Police Vinod Chhipa said.

    Talking to reporters, Beniwal said, “The initials in the letter are ‘Jai SOPU’. The letter said bad times have started for me since the day my SUV went missing. The sender threatened to finish me soon.”

    SOPU or Students Organisation of Punjab University is an outfit alleged to have links with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.

    Earlier, Narayan Beniwal’s brother and Nagaur MP Hanuman Beniwal targeted the Congress government in the state over the law and order situation.

    “Due to the poor law and order situation in Rajasthan, criminals have become fearless. This is why even people’s representatives are getting threats these days,” he said.

  • Hanuman Beniwal hits out at BJP’s Arun Singh for saying RLP has no credibility

    By PTI
    JAIPUR: Nagaur MP and Rashtriya Loktantrik Party convener Hanuman Beniwal on Thursday hit out at BJP general secretary Arun Singh for saying that his party was not credible.

    “Arun Singh has no mass base and he could not even fight the election of sarpanch. He has no right to raise questions on the credibility of the RLP because the RLP has been fighting on the issues of public interest,” he said.

    During a recent visit to Jaipur, Arun Singh, who is the BJP’s national general secretary in-charge for Rajasthan, had stated that the RLP has no credibility.

    Beniwal, a former BJP leader, said his party supported the BJP during the floor test last year.

    The Nagaur MP said that his party had contested the 2019-Lok Sabha elections in alliance with the BJP and the saffron party got its benefit on several seats.

    Beniwal quit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in December last year over the issue of farm laws.

  • RLP chief says party will field own candidates for 3 Assembly bypolls, 90 local bodies election

    By PTI
    JAIPUR: Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) convener and Nagaur MP Hanuman Beniwal, who quit the NDA in support of farmers agitation against the farm laws, on Saturday said his party will filed its own candidates for the upcoming bypolls to three assembly seats and elections in 90 local bodies.

    He exuded confidence that the party, which has three MLAs and one MP, will win the bypolls to Sahara, Rajsamand and Sujangarh assembly constituencies.

    He exuded confidence that the party, which has three MLAs and one MP, will win the bypolls to Sahara, Rajsamand and Sujangarh assembly constituencies.

    Bye-elections in these seats were necessitated following the death of the sitting legislators.

    While Congress held the Sahara and Sujangarh constituencies while the BJP had won the Rajsamand seat.

    “The party (RLP) will contest the upcoming bypolls in three assembly elections.

    Apart from them, the party will also field candidates in the local bodies elections,” Beniwal told reporters here on Saturday.

    He also said corruption will be the main agenda of elections to the local bodies.

    Commenting on the formation of ‘Vasundhara Raje Samarthak Rajasthan (Manch)’ floated by the former CM’s supporters, Beniwal termed it “parallel BJP” and a “challenge for prime minister (Narendra Modi)”.

    About splitting from the NDA, the RLP convener said he did so in view of farmers agitation and demanded that the Centre repeals the three contentious farm laws.

    At the same time, he also accused the Congress government in Rajasthan of neglecting the issues concerning the youths.

    Beniwal said he has extended his support to the farmers agitation and along with party MLAs, leaders and workers he will continue to hold peaceful dharna at Shahjahanpur near Rajasthan-Haryana border till the farmers demands are met.