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Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot favoured companies that his son worked with by giving them contracts worth several hundred crores, Gehlot said today that he will quit as Chief Minister if the charges of nepotism are proved against him.
"The accusation is that I have given the flat. If it can be proved in fact about even one flat, then I would immediately quit as Chief Minister. There is no truth in the allegations. They are mischievous, made up and very unfortunate," Gehlot said.
On the offensive, the Rajasthan Chief Minister said this is a conspiracy hatched by the BJP, most specifically by the Leader of Opposition in Rajasthan Assembly, Vasundhara Raje.
The contracts that were brought under the scrutiny were granted by the previous BJP government, Gehlot added.
In the Congress government in Rajasthan, there was a clear conflict of interest in multi-crore rupee contracts being awarded to companies which employed Chief Minister's son.
Om Metals and Triton Hotels use Mr Gehlot's son, Vaibhav, as a legal consultant. Vaibhav joined Om Metals in 2006 - his salary was Rs. 10,000 a month.
Two years later, the Congress government headed by Ashok Gehlot came to power.
In May 2010, the Rajasthan government awarded a Rs. 457-crore contract to Om Metals - whose main business was hydro-power projects - to construct a dam across the River Kalisindh near Kota.
Two months later , Om Metals was granted another Rs. 250 crore contract to build a two-lane 200-km stretch of the Rajasthan State Highway between Jaipur and Bhilwarah.
Om Metals denies there is a conflict of interest. "If Vaibhav Ghelot is a lawyer, he has to pursue his profession. He has been with us since 2006. It is not right to say that just because his father has become the Chief Minister, he has to leave his profession,"
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