Raje misleading people on Gujjar reservation issue: Gehlot

Raje allegedly has promised that they would give 5% reservation to the community if voted to power

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has accused BJP state president Vasundhara Raje of misleading people on Gujjar reservation issue by promising that the party would give 5% reservation to the community if voted to power.

Gehlot said the state government has already granted 5% reservation under special backward class.

"Congress government has given 5% reservation after crossing several hurdles. Their people got stay (on reservation) from the High Court so that Congress can not take credit but the government could give 1% reservation under SBC and the issue of 4% is subjudice," Gehlot said in a statement.

"Raje's statement that BJP government if voted to power would give 5% reservation to Gujjars is nothing but a false promise," he said.

Gehlot said that Raje had misled the community during her Pariwartan Yatra in 2008 also on Gujjar reservation issue.

"70 people who were demanding reservation were killed in police firing during the tenure of Raje," Gehlot alleged.