Raje arrives in Jodhpur on 2-day visit

Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today arrived on a two-day visit to Jodhpur where she inaugurated and laid foundation stones for a number of projects.

Raje first inaugurated an overbridge at Saran Nagar named after the Tejaji, a local deity revered by the Jat community, and laid the foundation stone of a bridge in Rajput-dominant locality, proposed to be named after Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.

Addressing a public gathering, she claimed that development projects worth Rs 13,500 crore were carried out in the city despite the former Congress government leaving a debt of Rs 1,200 crore.

Raje's visit to the city, the home town of Congress leader Ashok Gehlot and Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, is being viewed as crucial for the party ahead of the assembly election.

At her first programme, supporters of Khinvsar MLA Hanuman Beniwal, who is Raje's arch opponent, shouted slogans against her. Police resorted to lathicharge to disperse the crowd and detained three of them.