BJP has cornered Congress over sacking minister Rajendra Gudha after he questioned his own government's performance in reining in the crimes against women, even as his peers slammed the Manipur violence.
BJP targeted Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot after he sacked minister Gudha.
BJP said Gudha was sacked for telling the truth and it shows how serious the ruling Congress is about the issue of crimes against women in Rajasthan.
During the discussion on the Rajasthan Minimum Income Guarantee Bill 2023 in the state Assembly, Congress MLAs waved placards on the Manipur violence, but the protest did not go down well with Gudha, who sought 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 assembly.
Gudha, the Minister of State for Sainik Kalyan (Independent Charge), Home Guard and Civil Defence, Panchayati Raj and Rural Development, was sacked hours after he questioned his own government in the assembly.
Reacting to the minister's sacking, BJP IT department head Amit Malviya said in a tweet in Hindi that Gehlot removed Gudha from his cabinet for telling "the truth".
"This shows how serious Congress is about harassment of women," he said.
Senior BJP leader and Union minister Gajendra Singh Sekhawat also targeted the Rajasthan chief minister and said in a tweet in Hindi, "Telling the truth is forbidden in Gehlot's regime."
"The chief minister 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 itself," Shekhawat said.
With this, Gehlot has warned his colleagues if they speak the truth, they will not be spared, the Union minister charged.
"Intimidating one's own comrades, gagging them will also be called oppression," he added.
