Watch Video: Rajasthan police use water cannon to disperse protesting BJP workers demanding CBI probe in REET paper leak case

Watch Video: Rajasthan police use water cannon to disperse protesting BJP workers demanding CBI probe in REET paper leak case

Gehlot added that our state agency is capable enough to conduct an impartial probe and it has proved it in this case.

Manish GodhaUpdated: Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 04:44 PM IST
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The controversy over the question paper leak of Rajasthan Eligibility Examination of Teachers (REET) continues in the state as the opposition BJP hold a huge protest on Tuesday for the demand of CBI probe into the paper leak.

The government has denied the demand and said that the Special Operation Group (SOG) is fully capable of conducting an impartial probe into the REET case.

The budget session of the Rajasthan assembly is ongoing while the BJP continues to protest in the house on its demand.

To put more pressure on the state government, the BJP held a massive protest outside the parliament house with thousands of BJP workers gathering to do a Gherao of the assembly on Tuesday.

A clash also erupted between the state police and the BJP workers in Jaipur after which the police had to use water cannons to disperse the protesters. The leaders of BJP held Dharna at the site and the police had to detain them.

The BJP leaders alleged that this is a big scam and that they will not let the Gehlot government going to get away with this.

"This is a Rs 500 crore scam and the Gehlot government is involved in it. We’ll continue our protest and compel the government to fulfil our demand," said Arun Singh, BJP state in charge of the party.

On the other hand, the government is adamant on its stand to not hand over the case to CBI. CM Ashok Gehlot alleges that this is BJP's conspiracy to defame the government. "BJP wants to delay the recruitment process for at least one year so that they can blame us for not giving the jobs to the youth," said Gehlot in assembly.

He said, "We have recently handed over three cases to CBI and none has been taken up by the agency. Besides this, the incidents of paper leaks are taking place in other states as well but nobody is demanding a CBI probe in those states."

Gehlot added that our state agency is capable enough to conduct an impartial probe and it has proved it in this case.

Notably, question paper leak of REET has turned out to be a big political issue in the state as it involves around 16 lakh unemployed youth and government had to cancel the paper and dismiss the chairman of Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education DP Jaroli and some other officials after the investigation conduct by its own agency.

The BJP leaders are alleging that some of the ministers and top officials are involved in this case and it will not be possible for the state investigative agency to probe them, so the investigation should be handed over to the CBI.

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