If Gehlot is Clean, Why Fear ED, Asks Meghwal, BJP State Chief Talks of Rajasthan’s ‘Vaibhav’ | Exclusive – News18

Union Law Minister and Bikaner MP Arjun Ram Meghwal has told News18 that Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot should not be scared of action by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) if he is clean.

“Action against corruption should happen and the public also wants the same. If they (Gehlot) are clean, why should they be scared?” Meghwal told News18 in Jaipur when asked about Gehlot’s charge on ED. About Gehlot’s claim that his son has not been named in any case but was still raided by the ED, Meghwal said: “The case against Vaibhav Gehlot is a very old one, the chief minister knows about it.”

BJP state president CP Joshi also asked why the chief minister is so scared of ED. “The future of thousands of youths was spoilt in the paper leak matter. Gehlot could not get them justice but today ED is reaching the culprits. Then why the pain? Everything happened under your (Gehlot) rule, the CM himself is caught in deep corruption,” Joshi told News18.

Joshi also said the connections of the ‘paper leak’ matter go right up and hence, the suspicion is on the Congress state president. “Gehlot should not worry about his Vaibhav but worry about the Vaibhav of Rajasthan,” Joshi said on the CM’s son.

The ED suspects the ‘paper leak’ issue is linked to Govind Singh Dotasra who served as the education minister in Rajasthan from 2018 till 2021. He later became the party’s state president, a position on which he continues to date.

The ED summons to the chief minister’s son, Vaibhav Gehlot, are in a 12-year-old FEMA matter in which the suspicion is that Vaibhav’s company received money from Mauritius. “My company has no foreign links. This is a very old matter,” he said.

Dotasra was questioned for several hours by ED officials in Jaipur on Thursday. Vaibhav Gehlot was also summoned to Delhi by ED on Friday but he has sought more time from the agency, saying he wants to prepare documents before making an appearance.