Rajasthan Pulse I A Rajya Sabha poll like no other: Cross-voting claims, resort politics and Internet cuts

As recently as 2016, ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls, the BJP had taken its MLAs to a resort for “training” three days

On Thursday, Jaipur Divisional Commissioner Vikas Sitaramji Bhale issued orders suspending Internet services in Amer tehsil for 17 hours till Friday noon. Just hours before the order, Congress MLAs had landed at a hotel in Amer, all the way from Udaipur.

Officially, the reason was a “grave danger” to the security of the MLAs; Cabinet minister Govind Ram Meghwal had supposedly received a Rs 70 lakh extortion call. However, the more obvious reason was to prevent the MLAs from talking to the other side what with BJP-backed Independent candidate Subhash Chandra trying to whip up the numbers.

While the mobile phones were apparently switched on and the MLAs could make regular calls, the legislators suspected that their calls were being recorded. After all, back in 2020, this was how the ‘conspiracy’ to topple the Gehlot government was unearthed, and stopped, with the government later admitting to tapping phones.

BJP state president Satish Poonia, who is also an MLA from Amber, quipped, “Internet shutdown in Amer due to fear of paper leak”.

The move to suspend Internet services was unprecedented and a first during RS polls.

https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/rajasthan-pulse-rajya-sabha-poll-like-no-other-cross-voting-resort-politics-internet-cuts-7962757/


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