PHOTO: GOPAL SUNGER

RAISING THEIR VOICE: Protest rally by Congress workers led by PCC president B.D. Kalla in Jaipur on Tuesday .

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee on Tuesday took out a march to the official residence of the Chief Minister in the Civil Lines area protesting against "high-level corruption" in the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Government in the State.

Railway crossing

The rally, led by PCC president B.D.Kalla, was stopped at the Civil Lines railway crossing where the participants brunt effigies of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria.

The march, which started from Martyrs' Memorial on Mirza Ismail Road, had senior PCC functionaries, MLAs, former ministers, office-bearers of the party's front organisations, members of zila parishad and panchayats, and party workers as participants.

Addressing the marchers at the railway crossing, Mr.Kalla alleged that most of the members of the Raje Cabinet were involved in corrupt deals and financial irregularities. "The latest example was the land deal of Mr. Kataria, in which he purchased 7.5 bighas of land along National Highway No.8 much below the rate fixed by the district level committee. Mr. Kataria had evaded stamp duty also and furnished false information on the land under purchase," Mr.Kalla charged.

Stamp duty

Mr. Kalla said the Minister, who himself had confessed paying less stamp duty, should resign on moral grounds. He demanded handing over the case to the CBI for an independent enquiry.

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