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Veteran Congress person Ashok Gehlot connected Friday (January 23, 2026) accused the Bharatiya Janata Party authorities successful Rajasthan of turning the State into a “laboratory for communal experiments” by bringing the Bill for designating definite areas arsenic “disturbed”. Mr. Gehlot said this would beryllium an “utterly shameful step” successful the past of the State.
Mr. Gehlot, who has served thrice arsenic the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, wondered wherefore the godforsaken State, whose individuality was rooted successful brotherhood, a consciousness of belonging, and the civilization of ‘Padharo Mhare Des’, was present being deliberately branded arsenic “disturbed” by the ruling BJP done the Disturbed Areas Act.
The State authorities has declared its volition to bring the Disturbed Areas Bill successful the upcoming fund session of the Assembly. The State Cabinet approved the Bill earlier this week for addressing what it described arsenic demographic imbalance, improper clustering of colonisation and distress merchantability of onshore and houses.
Mr. Gehlot said Rajasthan neither faced the concern of confrontation, nor was the State’s ungraded fertile for hatred. “This [proposed] authorities volition devalue the spot of communal radical and enactment to disagreement societies that person lived unneurotic for centuries. The BJP authorities is resorting to polarisation to divert attraction from its administrative failures,” helium said successful a station connected X.
“The quality is clear: Our Congress government, promoting Mahatma Gandhi’s ideals, established the country’s archetypal section of bid and non-violence. The BJP, upon coming to power, archetypal unopen down that section and is present imposing this law,” Mr. Gehlot said.
The erstwhile Chief Minister said the radical successful Rajasthan wanted bid and harmony, alternatively of their residential areas being labelled arsenic “disturbed”. He said the Congress would powerfully reason the BJP’s “divisive mindset”.
