Rajasthan CM framing me to avenge son’s defeat: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

NEW DELHI: Union Jal Shakti minister and Jodhpur MP Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said on Sunday that the “fabricated audio clip released last week by the Rajasthan Congress was engineered by chief minister Ashok Gehlot to avenge the defeat of his son in 2019″.

In the Lok Sabha polls last year for the Jodhpur seat, Shekhawat had defeated Gehlot’s son and Congress candidate Vaibhav by about 2.7 lakh votes.

The minister at the centre of the raging controversy told TOI in an exclusive interview at his Mother Teresa Crescent Road residence in Delhi that the contents of the tape were “malicious and defamatory”. He added, “Neither the voice (in the recording) is mine, nor the accent. I have heard the entire conversation in the three audio clips. The person who is being referred to as ‘Gajendra’ has the accent of a man from the Sri Ganganagar region while I speak with a heavy Jodhpur Marwari accent. Second