JAISALMER: Union Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Sunday said people who were hiding their names and religion lure Hindu girls and trap them.
The minister told journalists in Pokhran that he wanted to ask chief minister Ashok Gehlot to explain why girls who are caught in this trap are forced to change their names. “The chief minister should first give a reply on this before making a comment on love jihad,” he said.
The Union minister said river water flowing to Pakistan will be stopped. “A detailed project report has been prepared and high-level clearance and technical report has already come. Hopefully, in the next one or two years, water flowing to Pakistan will be stopped,” he added.
The minister is on a Jaisalmer visit for the last two days and is campaigning continuously for the panchayat elections. He said the Centre was planning to clean other rivers just like the swachch Ganga mission. He said Ganga has now emerged as one of the cleanest rivers in the world. “In the last six years of PM Narendra Modi rule, the Ganga has become clean,” he added.
Minister said the Jal Sansadhan ministry had planned to clean all the rivers falling in the five basins of the country and work would start soon. “Till the general public gets associated with this work, the project won’t be possible. It is Modi’s dream that it should be responsibility of every person to keep rivers flowing and clean,” he added.
Mentioning about panchayat elections, he said the Rajasthan govt has carried out delimitation and restructuring in panchayat elections to suit its needs. He said the government could change the borders, but cannot change people’s mentality.