A day after the alleged pretend medical diploma rip-off got here to gentle, a blame sport ensued between the BJP and the Congress with each side alleging that the opposite had hyperlinks with the principle accused, Rasesh Gujarathi.
Whereas State Dwelling Minister Harsh Sanghavi alleged Gujarathi is a Congress chief, Congress’s Surat metropolis president Dhansukh Rajput claimed the particular person in query was with the get together for under a 12 months, in 2019, and lengthy earlier than the alleged rip-off happened.
Congress leaders, on Friday night, additionally shared pictures of Gujarathi with a BJP chief, purportedly from an occasion held for medical doctors on January 11, on completely different social media platforms.
On the sidelines of an occasion, Sanghavi informed media individuals: “Rasesh Gujarathi, who was arrested within the pretend medical certificates promoting racket, is a Congress chief. He was made the president of the medical doctors’ cell by Congress leaders. He’s working a enterprise promoting pretend medical levels in Surat metropolis. This chief is an anti-social component and has created many quacks by pretend medical certificates. Our police will probe the place the cash (generated by promoting pretend medical levels) went. We’ve come to know that the funds generated by Gujarathi and others have been despatched to completely different (political) events.”
He additional requested, “Why did the Congress make him the president of medical doctors’ cell?”
Sanghavi was collaborating on the Tera Tujhko Arpan by which gold jewelry, which was stolen from a Jain temple in Navsari district and later recovered, was handed over to the temple priest at an occasion organised in Surat’s Vesu space on Friday afternoon.
Speaking to The Indian Categorical, Congress chief Rajput stated, “Rasesh Gujarathi joined the Congress with Dr Ravindra Patil. Each of them have been earlier with the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP). He was made the medical doctors’ cell president however he later left the get together with Dr Patil. So long as he was with the Congress, no felony case was current towards him. He has no relations with the Congress. All these years, he has neither visited the Congress workplace nor attended any public assembly of the get together. The get together has nothing to do with Gujarathi. The state house minister is unnecessarily dragging the identify of the Congress on this case. We condemn the statements.”
