The Rajasthan budget is based on seven resolutions, including Nirogi Rajasthan and efforts are being made so that development is not interrupted in the state despite various challenges, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Thursday.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot will present the state budget for 2020-21 in the legislative assembly on Thursday. It will be the second budget of the Congress government, which came to power in the state in December 2018.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday alleged that the government did not know what people really expected of it, leading to protests and tensions in the country. 

Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot has slammed CM Ashok Gehlot over infant deaths in Kota hospital. He said that that mere mention of past such tragedies is not a sufficient response to the situation at hand.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the BJP, saying those who were "informers" of the British during the freedom movement were questioning the legacy of the Congress.

Kota was rocked by death of 12 infants this week, two of them on Friday, in a government hospital here, prompting Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla to urge Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to act "sensitively" on the issue.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday reminded the Congress to see the 1947 proposal of the party Executive committee before criticizing the Modi government over the issue. He said the Congress should also see the statement of its leader Ashok Gehlot.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday alleged that the BJP government at the Centre is trying to prepare the ground for making India a "Hindu rashtra" instead of focusing on the country's economy.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has criticised the Narendra Modi government for not taking the opposition into confidence on key issues like the scrapping of Article 370 and the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.

"The rape cases are rising which is alarming. A rape victim was burnt yesterday by the rape accused. Such incidents shake the country and every government should pay attention towards it,"

The action was taken on directions by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday who reviewed implementation of various schemes and programmes through video conferencing with district collectors, they said.

"This is a scientific era, age of mobiles where world can be reached out through the cellphone, and in this situation, limiting a women to veiled world is not justified," he said.

The chief minister also sought the intervention of President Ram Nath Kovind as the president's rule in the state was revoked under his stamp.

Senior Congress leader and current Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot has taken a jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for being hateful towards India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Criticising the BJP hostility towards Jawaharlal Nehru, Gehlot said on Tuesday, "Their (BJP leaders') blood pressure shoots up just on the mention of the first Prime Minister's name."

Speaking on the issue, Rajasthan Minority Affairs Minister Saleh Mohammad said "Although Modi government makes tall claims for benefits of the minority class, it has shown its real face by stopping funds for madrasas in Rajasthan. However, due to the sensitivity of Gehlot on this issue, the madrasas in Rajasthan have got a new lifeline"

He said there was a period of recession in the world some years back which also had an effect on India, by the then government under prime minister Manmohan Singh took effective steps and "kept the country's economy strong"

"In Haryana, voters have given a mandate against BJP. In Maharashtra their vote share and number of seats has gone down. In other bypolls, number of Congress candidates have won which shows people are now realising the difference between Congress party's agenda of public welfare and BJP's divisive agenda," he said.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot here on Saturday said the BJP resorted to nationalism and the scrapping of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir during campaigning for the Haryana and Maharashtra assembly polls as they had nothing to show in the name of performance.

After Andhra Pradesh, the Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan is also planning to grant 75 per cent reservations for locals in private sector jobs.  

The Rajasthan High Court has issued summons to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot along with State Election Commission and returning officer on a petition challenging his election from Sardarpura constituency.