Overview

• Municipal officials removed the unauthorized hoardings on Saturday, with the commissioner confirming a probe and warning of legal action against those responsible.
• The posters accused Congress of sheltering rapists and carried District Congress Committee names, which local party units disowned in a joint statement calling the act a defamation attempt.
• Jain and his lawyer said they filed police complaints, alleging a bid to malign him and the party, while Jain claimed opponents were behind the posters and that a court had given him a clean chit.
• Jain was expelled in January 2024 after a gang-rape case was lodged in Jodhpur, and a special POCSO court accepted the police’s final report in July 2024 after key complainants recanted.
• His reinstatement was approved by the party’s disciplinary process on September 22, a move that party sources and observers say has revived the Gehlot–Harish Chaudhary power struggle as the BJP attacks Congress over the episode.