Rajasthan Freezes MLA-LAD Accounts, Orders 15-Day Probe Into Sting on Three MLAs

Overview

• The state halted implementation and payments for works recommended by the three legislators as their constituency MLA-LAD accounts were frozen.
• A high-level committee headed by ACS (Home) Bhaskar A Sawant, constituted on the chief minister’s orders, has 15 days to report to the chief secretary.
• Assembly Speaker Vasudev Devnani has referred the case to the House Ethics Committee for a legislative inquiry.
• Party actions include a three-day show-cause notice from the BJP to Revantram Danga and a Congress notice to Anita Jatav with a weeklong inquiry plan.
• The accused MLAs — BJP’s Revantram Danga, Congress’s Anita Jatav and Independent Ritu Banawat — deny wrongdoing, with threats of defamation and claims of possible AI-manipulated content.