As Ashok Gehlot completes three years in his third time period because the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, he speaks Indian Express On the challenges to this point, what lies forward, and the way he believes Rajasthan will lastly break the three-decade-old custom of not electing a authorities.
What are the large plans that you just suppose will enable you to get chosen once more in 2023?
Our authorities has labored for each part of the society and uploaded the main points of each beneficiary. Our authorities has waived agricultural loans price about Rs 15,000 crore; has given a further subsidy of Rs 1,000 on the electrical energy payments of farmers, decreasing the payments of about 3 lakh farmers to zero; Free therapy as much as Rs 5 lakh underneath Chiranjeevi Swasthya Bima Yojana; And throughout Kovid, all the pieces was given freed from price from investigation to therapy. Government medical faculties are being opened in 30 districts, 123 new faculties, 32 are girls’s faculties, now we have given 1 lakh authorities jobs whereas about 80,000 are within the pipeline, guidelines are being made for contract employees, 88 lakh folks social safety Pension is being given, roads are being laid in each meeting, complaints are being heard in police stations and industrial areas are being opened in each block.
This is only a snapshot. People have repeatedly authorised of our work. That’s why now we have gained massive in six out of eight meeting by-elections and in city native our bodies and panchayati raj elections.
Talking about earlier governments or Modi authorities, BJP has nothing to indicate. That’s why they do politics of hate throughout the nation within the title of caste, faith, class and language. We have at all times sought votes on improvement. Now the folks have taken an oath that they may vote within the title of improvement… even after three years there isn’t a anti-incumbency wave. Huh. ,
There was no dissatisfaction within the form of corona administration we did, as seen in different states… This time folks will vote once more in Congress by breaking a convention from 1993.
What would be the authorities’s focus within the subsequent two years?
Health and social safety has at all times been the precedence of our authorities. That’s why we did not enable anybody to be denied therapy throughout Kovid and did not let anybody go hungry. Our authorities gave monetary help of Rs 5,500 to 33 lakh households. We additionally supplied dry ration and meals for Rs 8 by Indira Rasoi. There are immense funding alternatives in our state and we’re organizing the ‘Rajasthan Investments’ summit in January. Farmers welfare, girls empowerment, bettering supply of public providers, Right to Health Bill, offering alternatives to youth will likely be our precedence.
Work on the ‘Right to Health’ Bill is occurring for a very long time. Similarly, accountability legal guidelines. The remaining draft is alleged to be prepared however to objection by some bureaucrats.
Right to well being is our precedence. And to repair accountability, our authorities introduced Guaranteed Delivery of Public Service Act and Right to Hearing Act within the final tenure. We are working to strengthen each these legal guidelines and study the necessity for the brand new legislation.
The NCRB report reveals that there was an enormous enhance in crime in Rajasthan. In rape circumstances, Jaipur (409) is adopted solely by Delhi (967), whereas the state ranks third after Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal in crimes in opposition to girls.
The NCRB report says from the very starting that crime is the results of numerous circumstances. We ought to keep away from evaluating states on the premise of statistics solely due to completely different state-specific insurance policies and procedures. Some folks make the error of assuming that enhance in crime and enhance in registration of crime are the identical factor. Our authorities carried out obligatory registration of FIR in 2019. Earlier, the police used to write down the report on a clean paper and register an FIR solely after getting any proof. But this precipitated hassle for girls and marginalized communities. Now all of the FIRs have been registered.
Not solely this, in 2019 our authorities arrange a particular unit in each district to research crimes in opposition to girls underneath an officer of the rank of Deputy SP who has now been promoted as Additional SP. With this, the investigation time in heinous circumstances like rape has come right down to 73 from 274 days in 2017-18. We have additionally appointed authorized officers within the courts in order that criminals don’t go unpunished. That is why you retain studying that an accused was sentenced in 10 days or judgment was delivered inside a month.
But the matter of concern is that individuals are defaming this coverage. Of the FIRs registered in crimes in opposition to girls, 45.88 per cent in 2019, 45.23 per cent in 2020 and 47.56 per cent in 2021, had been discovered to be faux until June… The state is being defamed by folks misusing the legislation on this method. .
This is your third time period as CM. You say what has modified?
The greatest distinction lies within the relationship between the middle and the state. Earlier each used to work collectively, however now the Center treats the opposition-ruled states step-motherly. Rajasthan is searching for nationwide undertaking standing for the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP). It was introduced by the Prime Minister himself, however no motion has been taken on it.
After the implementation of GST, there aren’t any particular financial establishments left with the states (the states are left with no main income). The Center doesn’t clear the arrears of GST on time, resulting from which the event work of the state will get caught. They take choices unilaterally with out consulting the states and the states need to bear the results. And that is the primary time that Union ministers are planning to topple state governments – Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh…
You have written a number of letters to the Center on the ERCP challenge. What has been the response?
I’ve written 5 letters to the PM and 7 to the Union Jal Shakti Minister. Jal Shakti Minister has replied thrice. Center gave Rs 40,000 crore for Ken-Betwa river linking undertaking, however didn’t take any motion relating to ERCP… We are decided to finish the ERCP, so now we have began work utilizing state price range, But it’s tough with out central help. That is why we’re asking for nationwide undertaking standing.
…The folks of the state have realized that should you flip the roti rapidly, it turns into half-baked. So they may bless us once more in 2023.
The costs of petrol, diesel and cylinders are growing. Do you suppose BJP will lose some votes on this account?
The financially prosperous supporters of the BJP might assist it, however ask the frequent man, the laborer, whether or not their revenue has elevated in proportion to inflation. In the final 5 years, 22 crore folks have slipped under the poverty line. Can making folks poor be within the curiosity of the nation, because the BJP claims to do?… (Covid) The Rs 20 lakh crore package deal was introduced through the lockdown however was made loan-based and The financial system received nothing. Benefit.
At a current rally in Jaipur, Rahul Gandhi stated that there’s a distinction between being a Hindu and being a Hindutvawadi. Is Congress going to undertake delicate Hindutva as a technique?
I’ve talked about this challenge earlier than and I’ll repeat it. A Hindu is one who believes in reality, non-violence, love, brotherhood and tolerance. Hindus don’t hate anybody and respect all religions. But Chadam (pseudo) Hindutva imagine in spreading violence, intolerance and hatred. There is as a lot distinction between a Hindu and a Chad Hindutva as between Gandhiji and Godse…
Rahulji believes that the politics of hatred and violence of BJP-RSS ought to finish by distorting the fundamental nature of Hinduism.
Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat’s title has cropped up in reference to the Sanjivani Society case and the Congress has accused him of tapping the telephones of its leaders (through the Congress riot led by Sachin Pilot). Why was no motion taken on these two points?
This is the distinction between him and our authorities. We by no means use legislation companies for political functions. Police, SOG (Special Operations Group), ACB (Anti-Corruption Bureau) are all working independently. We by no means instruct them a few specific particular person. The legislation will take its personal course and the courts will punish him for his unlawful acts.
You have introduced free sanitary napkins for girls by UDAN scheme.
There is such hesitation in discussing menstruation, though it’s a pure course of. I used to be shocked to study that about 62 % of girls within the nation use means aside from sanitary pads. Doctors say that utilizing fabric throughout menstruation could cause many ailments together with cervical most cancers. So, we introduced Rs 200 crore on this price range to offer sanitary napkins to all the ladies within the state.
I imagine this ought to be debated throughout the nation and governments ought to make plans (for this).
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
