Rajasthan News: CM Gehlot vs PM Modi ensues over ‘red diary, red tomatoes, red cylinder’
Rajasthan polls are scheduled to be held on or before December 2023 to elect representatives 200 seats of the state's Legislative assembly. What started with an invitation to speak, and the fact that the Rajasthan CM would not be ‘able to welcome PM Modi’ to the state, elevated to red tomato and red diary barbs on both end. For context, red tomatoes have been selling at sky high prices all across the country causing many to give up on the botanical fruit, including burger chains like McDonalds.
At certain cities in India the cost of tomatoes were higher than even fuel prices. The ‘red dairy’ for the Rajasthan cabinet is the one waved by sacked Rajasthan Congress MLA Rajendra Gudha claiming it contained details of irregular financial transactions. MLA Gudha claimed that the ‘red’ dairy contained the details of alleged irregular financial transactions of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
Notably, Gudha was sacked by CM Gehlot hours after he flagged women's safety issue in the Rajasthan cabinet. Barbs flew between Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PM Modi is in Rajasthan as part of the BJP's election campaigning ahead of the Rajasthan Assembly Polls.
On Thursday, PM Modi took a dig at CM Gehlot and claimed that the secrets in the diary will ruin the ruling Congress in the upcoming Assembly polls. As was customary, CM Gehlot had a sharp retort, where he said PM Modi could see an ‘imaginary red diary’ but not ‘ red tomatoes, red cylinders’, whose soaring prices have hit kitchen budgets for lakhs of Indians. Prime Minister Modi is in Sikar, Rajasthan, where at the election campaign rally, PM Modi mocked Rahul Gandhi's Mohabbat ki Dukaan' and said, "The red diary" is a fresh product of the Congress' "loot
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