Joshi targets Shekhawat over ERCP

Naresh Sharma

Jaipur: PHED Minis- ter Mahesh Joshi cornered Union Minister

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Tuesday accusing him of misleading Prime Minister Modi and create hurdles and not declaring ERCP as a national project.

“Being from Rajasthan, if there is any deficiency, it should be covered by him. But he is busy creating an atmosphere against Rajasthan. He also does not cooperate in the

Water supply to remain shut down in city on Feb 24-26

First India Bureau investigation and does not give voice sample to ACB in phone tapping case,” he said.

Jaipur: The water supply will remain closed in entire Jaipur city for 3 days from 24 to 26 February due to water works. If needed, water will be supplied from local tube well or tankers. There will be no evening supply in Jaipur on February 24, said an official.

On February 25, the supply of both the times will be completely closed. Morning supply will remain closed on February 26. 220 MLD water supply will be increased from next week. Supply is affected due to works at 216 MLD treatment plant being built in Surajpura.

Joshi was speaking in the Atal Ground Water Scheme workshop in the auditorium of Ag- ricultural Research Institute, Durgapura in Jaipur from Tuesday.

“ERCP should be declared a national project. We will give connection to every house in JJM. But from where will you get water for the tap? Population wise our graph is going up and groundwater graph going down. Ram may get angry but Raj should not get angry,” he said. dav, Gujarat’s Mukesh Patel, IG Navjyoti Gogoi, Satyendra Singh, DIG Rahul Prakash, Additional CP Kailash Bishnoi, SP Monika Sen participated in the meeting.

Jodhpur/Sri Ganga- nagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday conducted raids at the premises of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s close aide Kailash Manju in Jodhpur and three places in Sri Ganganagar and Anupgarh and rounded up three persons. However, they were later released after questioning for about three hours.

Sources said that they were questioned for transactions with gangsters. However, the NIA has not made any disclosure about this.

The NIA team raided a house in Homeland City Colony under Sadar police station of Sri Ganganagar. The team also took action in 61 GB, 62 GB and 65 GB of Anupgarh area.

NIA had input that the persons against whom action was taken here have connections with gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi, Rohit

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Kailash Manju has been a long-time associate of Lawrence Bishnoi and on the basis of call records, the NIA teams conducted searches in rural and urban areas of Jodhpur as Bishnoi’s network has been active there.

Godara, Neeraj Bawana and others.

Earlier in the day, NIA conducted raids at the premises of gangster Bishnoi’s close aid l Role of Lawrence’s henchmen has come to fore in several cases of extortion, firing and murder l NIA sources revealed Kulwinder is also connected to international drug syndicates l NIA launched searches at over 70 locations across several states l Raids were conducted at over 30 locations in Punjab and Haryana

Kulwinder in Gandhidham. In a major crackdown, the NIA launched searches at over 70 locations across several states on Tuesday.