Attacking the former chief minister for accusing the state government of draining the state exchequer in the last one year, Gehlot said that there was no sense in such remarks made by a person who was 'corrupt'.
Attacking former chief minister Vasundhara Raje for accusing the state government of draining the state exchequer in the last one year, Rajathan chief minister Ashok Gehlot today said that she was losing self control in anger.
He said that there was no sense in such remarks made by a person who was "corrupt".
"There was rampant corruption from top to bottom in her government and people know very well about it. That is why she was voted out in the Assembly elections. Now she is losing her self control in anger," he told reporters on the sidelines of a heritage conference at Jawarhar Kala Kendra.
"Ministers of her own cabinet had levelled corruption charges against Raje. Her government struck online deals," Gehlot alleged.
"The hype her government created for setting up IT corridor and knowledge corridor was nothing but a mere gimmick just to give land at throw away price by acquiring it from the farmers," he said.
Gehlot claimed that this had led to the land prices going up. He said that his government had just wanted clarifications from the previous BJP government about all these allegations but Raje was yet to rebut them.
Raje had accused Gehlot yesterday of draining the state exchequer and alleged that the Congress government had failed to achieve a single milestone in any sector in the last one year.
Meanwhile, stating that it was important to pass something of historic importance to the generations to come, Gehlot stressed on the necessity of heritage conservation.
"Heritage conservation sometimes invites criticism, but it (conservation) should be taken in its real meaning. The motive is to bring to life the history and to ensure that upcoming generations know the value of our heritage," Gehlot said in his address at the heritage conference by Jaipur Virasat Foundation.
The chief minister also spoke about creating awareness among citizens for heritage conservation and said that more effort by individuals and various agencies was needed.
Earlier, state tourism minister Bina Kak had said that civic sense among citizens was needed the most to reflect their 'virasat' or heritage which was not related to merely old buildings.
"There should be efforts not just to make money out of these sites, but there should be more awareness for civic sense," Kak said. "Spending lakhs and crores of rupees in the name of restoration is useless if visitors spoil the monuments in different ways," she added.
State home and UDH minister Shanti Dhariwal, UDH secretary G S Sandhu, Virasat Foundation founder Faith Singh were also present on the occasion.
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