Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot issued an unusual communique late tonight in which he slammed former CM Vasundhara Raje and alleged that Modi was involved in several land scams in the state with Raje’s support. The communique was released following a Cabinet meet this evening but the delay, according to the CM’s press advisor, was because of the time it took to word it. Speaking out for the first time on the issue after becoming the CM and since the run-up to the Assembly elections in 2008, Gehlot claimed that ministers, politicians and bureaucrats had to wait outside Modi’s hotel room for project clearances right through Raje’s five-year term in power in Rajasthan.He claimed that because of Modi's proximity to Raje, he used to pressurise officers for favours. "Bureaucrats went to his hotel room carrying files for clearance but Raje who was aware of all these happenings never cared to stop him," the Congress leader alleged. Gehlot said that despite the protests by opposition and the media against Modi's activities, Raje "remained silent and this continued for her entire five-year tenure as chief minister of the state". “It was in Rajasthan in collusion with the then CM Vasundhara Raje, that Lalit Kumar Modi became the Lalit Modi we know today. In fact for the first time in history, a Chief Minister passed an Act in the assembly (Rajasthan Sports Act) solely to help Modi become the president of the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) in 2005,” Gehlot said.
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