Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday accused the Centre of being too cussed to heed anybody else, along with the Opposition.
Counselling the Centre to shun the alleged arrogance "which does now no longer remaining in politics", Gehlot asserted that human beings recognize the whole thing and could train it a lesson at the proper time.
"There is an area for dissent in a democracy. It should be there. When they had been withinside the Opposition, they criticised us," Gehlot advised journalists after hoisting the Tricolour on Independence Day.
"They are such individuals who are decided to rule stubbornly without bothering to pay attention to anybody," he added.
The leader minister's observation induced Rajasthan's BJP president Satish Poonia to take a dig at Gehlot and different Congress leaders.
"Gehlot is the primary leader minister who proudly says he did now no longer project out of his domestic at some stage in the Covid pandemic," stated Poonia.
Referring to the subsequent nation meeting elections, he asserted that withinside the yr 2023, the human beings of Rajasthan will give up this and "quarantine" Congress out of power.
He stated the Emergency changed into the largest war on this after independence and anyone is aware of who imposed it.
"They speak approximately democracy. Either they do now no longer recognize the records or are intentionally ignoring it," Poonia stated.
Earlier at some stage in the day, Independence Day changed into celebrated with lots fervour in Rajasthan with Chief Minister Gehlot hoisting the flag at Jaipur's Sawai Man Singh Stadium and analyzing the defence of honour.
While speaking to journalists, Gehlot additionally accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being the "sole PM withinside the remaining seventy-five years who hesitates in taking the call of former PM Jawaharlal Nehru".
"I remorse that PM Modi feels shy of speak me even phrases approximately the primary PM. With those human beings having such an attitude, one could recognize in which will they take the country to," Gehlot stated.