BJP leaders kick up row on camera

Kota: A day after a BJP legislator of Rajasthan was booked by police for allegedly abusing and threatening a medical officer, another video surfaced on Saturday showing party MLA Bhawani Singh Rajawat threatening voters with consequences if they do not vote for the BJP.

The video purportedly showed him threatening voters, ahead of the November local body polls, of driving them out of their illegally built dwellings in Kota if they did not vote for BJP. Mr Rajawat even offered them a “bribe.” “I will get 1,000 BPL cards made. It is my government, my CM, and the municipal corporation board will also be ours,” the video clip showed him saying.

However the MLA from Ladpura in Kota on Sunday said that said he was only asking the electorate to choose the BJP over Congress as the latter had “done nothing for them.”

Another video of Mr Rajawat rebuking a DSP on duty and an audio clip of another BJP leader of scolding a police official for not relaxing the curfew in Bundi district also surfaced.

In the audio tape, Pramod Jain, municipality chairman of Nainwa sub-division of Bundi district, is heard rebuking a police official for not relaxing the curfew during communal tension in Nainwa in September this year.

Another video showed Rajasthan minister Nand Lal Meena, reacting to a news report which was unfavourable to him,  is seen threatening a supporter of his political rival saying that if he didn’t stop saying wrong things about him then he (Mr Meena) would break his hands and legs.