The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday suspended senior MLA and former Rajasthan Assembly Speaker Kailash Meghwal from the party’s primary membership following the corruption charges levelled by him against Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal. BJP State president C.P. Joshi had recently served a show cause notice on him in the matter.
BJP disciplinary committee chairperson Onkar Singh Lakhawat said that Mr. Joshi had directed that Mr. Meghwal’s reply and the entire matter be referred to the panel for further action.
Mr. Kailash Meghwal, 89, had called the Union Minister “corrupt number one” at a public meeting last month and alleged that he had taken bribes worth crores of rupees as an officer in Churu district before he entered politics. The row between the two leaders has erupted just before the State Assembly election due in December this year.
