Tag: Ravan

  • ‘If I’m Ravan, you become Ram & return Sanjeevani co-op money: Gehlot to Shekhawat

    By PTI

    JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot hit back at Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Friday for calling him “Ravan”.

    Referring to Shekhawat’s alleged involvement in the Sanjeevani Credit Co-operative Society scam, Gehlot said, “If I am Ravan, you become Ram and return the investors’ money.”

    He further challenged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, saying, “If you throw stones at me, I will use those to build houses for the poor.”

    Addressing a gathering after visiting an inflation relief camp in Rawatsar town of Hanumangarh, Gehlot said Shekhawat’s friends are in jail in connection with the scam and the Union minister is also likely to go to prison.

    He said if Shekhawat is guilty, either he should resign on moral grounds or Prime Minister Narendra Modi should sack him.

    At the BJP’s Jan Aakrosh rally in Chittorgarh on Thursday, Shekhawat said, “If you want to end (the rule of) Ashok Gehlot, this Ravan of politics in Rajasthan, raise your hands and resolve to establish Ram Rajya in the state.”

    Reacting to these remarks, Gehlot on Friday said, “Nowadays, Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and other BJP leaders have started abusing me. Am I Ravan? You (Shekhawat) looted 2.5 lakh people in the Sanjeevani Society and they got ruined. Your friends are in jail. You can also go to jail anytime.”

    The Jodhpur bench of the Rajasthan High Court stayed Shekhawat’s arrest in connection with the scam recently.

    The Union minister has filed a criminal defamation case against Gehlot in a Delhi court for remarks linking him with the scam.

    Referring to the high court’s stay on Shekhawat’s arrest, Gehlot said, “He has taken a stay from the high court. He used to say that I am not an accused at all. If you are not an accused, why did you go to the court? Why did you get bail?”

    The chief minister further said, “You can get bail. You are an accused. You are a central minister, so either resign on the basis of morality or Prime Minister Modi should sack you. Why have you kept such a corrupt person in your cabinet?”

    Gehlot said, “He (Shekhawat) says Ashok Gehlot is Ravan. Okay, I am Ravan, but you become Ram. Pay the money of these 2.5 lakh people.”

    He accused Shekhawat of robbing people and buying farmhouses in other countries and said he should return the money of those poor people by selling all the properties of the Sanjeevani Society and those in his possession.

    The victims of the Sanjeevani scam met the chief minister several times.

    Referring to this, Gehlot said, “These people met me thrice. Tears welled up in my eyes. Now, those associated with the BJP are abusing me. My job is to serve.”

    “If you throw stones at me, I will use those to build houses for the poor. That is my thinking. I will get hospitals built. It is not my thinking that one cannot criticise and if one does, he will go to jail,” the Congress leader said.

    JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot hit back at Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Friday for calling him “Ravan”.

    Referring to Shekhawat’s alleged involvement in the Sanjeevani Credit Co-operative Society scam, Gehlot said, “If I am Ravan, you become Ram and return the investors’ money.”

    He further challenged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, saying, “If you throw stones at me, I will use those to build houses for the poor.”googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    Addressing a gathering after visiting an inflation relief camp in Rawatsar town of Hanumangarh, Gehlot said Shekhawat’s friends are in jail in connection with the scam and the Union minister is also likely to go to prison.

    He said if Shekhawat is guilty, either he should resign on moral grounds or Prime Minister Narendra Modi should sack him.

    At the BJP’s Jan Aakrosh rally in Chittorgarh on Thursday, Shekhawat said, “If you want to end (the rule of) Ashok Gehlot, this Ravan of politics in Rajasthan, raise your hands and resolve to establish Ram Rajya in the state.”

    Reacting to these remarks, Gehlot on Friday said, “Nowadays, Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and other BJP leaders have started abusing me. Am I Ravan? You (Shekhawat) looted 2.5 lakh people in the Sanjeevani Society and they got ruined. Your friends are in jail. You can also go to jail anytime.”

    The Jodhpur bench of the Rajasthan High Court stayed Shekhawat’s arrest in connection with the scam recently.

    The Union minister has filed a criminal defamation case against Gehlot in a Delhi court for remarks linking him with the scam.

    Referring to the high court’s stay on Shekhawat’s arrest, Gehlot said, “He has taken a stay from the high court. He used to say that I am not an accused at all. If you are not an accused, why did you go to the court? Why did you get bail?”

    The chief minister further said, “You can get bail. You are an accused. You are a central minister, so either resign on the basis of morality or Prime Minister Modi should sack you. Why have you kept such a corrupt person in your cabinet?”

    Gehlot said, “He (Shekhawat) says Ashok Gehlot is Ravan. Okay, I am Ravan, but you become Ram. Pay the money of these 2.5 lakh people.”

    He accused Shekhawat of robbing people and buying farmhouses in other countries and said he should return the money of those poor people by selling all the properties of the Sanjeevani Society and those in his possession.

    The victims of the Sanjeevani scam met the chief minister several times.

    Referring to this, Gehlot said, “These people met me thrice. Tears welled up in my eyes. Now, those associated with the BJP are abusing me. My job is to serve.”

    “If you throw stones at me, I will use those to build houses for the poor. That is my thinking. I will get hospitals built. It is not my thinking that one cannot criticise and if one does, he will go to jail,” the Congress leader said.

  • Bengal polls: Mamata likens Modi, Shah to grotesque Ravan, overweight monster

    Express News Service
    KOLKATA: Barely 24 hours after the CBI grilled the wife of her nephew Abhishek Banerjee in connection with a coal pilferage case, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday launched a personal attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

    While addressing a rally at Hooghly’s Dunlop ground, the same venue from where the PM lashed out at the TMC government two days ago, the CM compared Modi with grotesque and Ravan and Shah with an overweight potbelly man and a monster.

    “I don’t want to malign the post of the Prime Minister. But two men from Delhi are visiting Bengal and misleading people in Bengal. One is Hodolkutkut (an overweight potbelly man) and the other is kimbhutkimakar (grotesque),” said Mamata Banerjee.

    A few days ago, Mamata termed Shah as nadusnudus (an overweight child).

    Mamata Banerjee linked CBI’s interrogation of Abhishek’s wife Rujira to BJP’s conspiracy to defame Bengal’s women and daughters. “She (Rujira) is a 22-year-old young lady who has no involvement in the case. Putting the daughter-in-law of a family under the scanner of a law enforcing agency is an insult of Bengal’s women.

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    “You are using the central agency to defame the women and daughters of Bengal. You (Modi and Shah) are raising a voice against coal smuggling, but you are roaming with coal smugglers and staying in a hotel in Burdwan owned by a coal mafia. I know everything but not dropping his name,” she hit back.

    A team of eight CBI sleuths interrogated Rujira at her south Kolkata residence for one-and-a-half-hour on Tuesday. The CBI officials entered the apartment minutes after Mamata Banerjee paid an unscheduled visit there.        

    She said the Centre is privatising the government agencies and selling out PSUs. “Two persons are running the country. One is Ravan and another is a danav (monster).”   

    Retaliating Modi’s attack on the issue of lack of industrialisation in Bengal, Mamata used the venue, the ground of the closed Dunlop factory, as her political tool. “In 2016, we wrote letters to the Centre expressing the state government’s interest to take over the Dunlop and Jessop factories. But till date, there is no response from your end. The central government is responsible for the plight of the workers of the two factories. We are giving Dunlop workers a monthly grant. What have you done for them? Nothing,” she said.

    On Modi’s labelling of the TMC as an outfit of extortionists, the CM said, “If the poor take Rs 5, they are tolabaj (extortionist). And your party is draining out thousands of crores. Have you waived farmers’ loan? No. But, you allowed the defaulters of thousands of crores of bank loans to go scot-free.”