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Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot asks Centre to return NPS funds, threatens to move SC | Jaipur News
JAIPUR: Demanding the Centre to return the money deposited by the state in the new pension scheme (NPS), CM Ashok Gehlot said Thursday that the government cannot risk the future of its employees, pointing to the current market volatility that caused the crash in Adani Group shares.
He said the entire NPS corpus was invested in the stock markets and threatened to move the Supreme Court if the Centre does not release funds to implement the old pension scheme (OPS). He was replying to the discussion on the governor’s address in the state assembly.
Gehlot said that there was turmoil in the country and abroad and the entire share market has fallen, including the shares of LIC and SBI that have given loans to Adani Group.
“Money from the NPS has been pumped into the share market. As NPS carries market risks, the future of employees is at stake. We had made this argument when we implemented the OPS,” he said.
He also asked PM Narendra Modi to restore OPS across the country. “Sooner or later, the Centre will be forced to restore OPS,” he said. Earlier, Gehlot attacked BJP and the PM for not giving tickets to Muslims in the party.
“Not a single Muslim member from BJP is there in Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha or UP. Is this democratic thinking? To one religion, which comprises 20% of the population, the party (BJP) did not give a single ticket,” Gehlot said, replying to the Leader of Opposition, Gulab Chand Kataria, when he claimed that the PM believed in taking everyone along.
CM Ashok Gehlot also took a dig and asked BJP leaders and asked them to remind the PM of the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP). “PM is coming to Dausa and this is a good chance. We should all remind him about the issue of ERCP or go to Delhi together.
We will take along the recording of his speech. ERCP is a very important project. We should all try together,” he said. On paper leaks, the chief minister said the culprits who were involved in the crime have been jailed and their buildings demolished.
A law has been enacted to punish those involved in paper leaks, he said. Listing his achievements during the Covid-19 pandemic, the chief minister said, “The excellent management by the state government to control the pandemic proved to be a ‘game changer’ and our government will come back in the state (in Assembly polls due later this year).”
He said the entire NPS corpus was invested in the stock markets and threatened to move the Supreme Court if the Centre does not release funds to implement the old pension scheme (OPS). He was replying to the discussion on the governor’s address in the state assembly.
Gehlot said that there was turmoil in the country and abroad and the entire share market has fallen, including the shares of LIC and SBI that have given loans to Adani Group.
“Money from the NPS has been pumped into the share market. As NPS carries market risks, the future of employees is at stake. We had made this argument when we implemented the OPS,” he said.
He also asked PM Narendra Modi to restore OPS across the country. “Sooner or later, the Centre will be forced to restore OPS,” he said. Earlier, Gehlot attacked BJP and the PM for not giving tickets to Muslims in the party.
“Not a single Muslim member from BJP is there in Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha or UP. Is this democratic thinking? To one religion, which comprises 20% of the population, the party (BJP) did not give a single ticket,” Gehlot said, replying to the Leader of Opposition, Gulab Chand Kataria, when he claimed that the PM believed in taking everyone along.
CM Ashok Gehlot also took a dig and asked BJP leaders and asked them to remind the PM of the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP). “PM is coming to Dausa and this is a good chance. We should all remind him about the issue of ERCP or go to Delhi together.
We will take along the recording of his speech. ERCP is a very important project. We should all try together,” he said. On paper leaks, the chief minister said the culprits who were involved in the crime have been jailed and their buildings demolished.
A law has been enacted to punish those involved in paper leaks, he said. Listing his achievements during the Covid-19 pandemic, the chief minister said, “The excellent management by the state government to control the pandemic proved to be a ‘game changer’ and our government will come back in the state (in Assembly polls due later this year).”
