However, the chief minister, who met Congress President for the first time after the controversy hit him a few months ago, said the issue was not discussed at his meeting with Gandhi.
Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot today met Congress President Sonia Gandhi amid controversies surrounding his kin's alleged links with the land mafia.
However, the Chief Minister, who met Gandhi for the first time after the controversy hit him a few months ago, said the issue was not discussed at his meeting with Gandhi.
"She did not ask me this. So there was no occassion for me to explain. These allegations are baseless. I have earlier also said that I will quit if the allegations are proved," he told reporters after meeting Gandhi.
The allegations that his son Vaibhav was protecting the accused in land scams have had their echo in the state Assembly too and the Opposition BJP has sought to make a big issue of it.
Reports also had it that Gehlot's daughter and son-in-law were gifted a flat in Mumbai by a real state
company for helping it in business deals in the state.
However, an unfazed Gehlot said, "Allegations were levelled personally against me even 30 years ago. This time the allegations are against my children. These are all media reports and BJP is attacking on their basis."
In February, an anonymous pamphlet had emerged in the state demanding that call details of his son's mobile phone should be recovered to ascertain his links with land mafia and an inquiry conducted. After the opposition attacked the government on the issue, the Speaker of Rajasthan Assemby
asked the state Home Minister to look into the matter.
Highly-placed sources in the Congress, however, described the meeting as a 'routine one', saying it was normal for Chief Ministers to meet the Congress President.
Gehlot also met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at noon and is learnt to have raised the issue of linkage coal for Rajasthan and the issue of delay in environmental clearance to mining leases there.
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