Order to paint Rajasthan govt college gates orange sparks row, Congress alleges ‘saffronisation’

The Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan Government College successful Ajmer has already painted its introduction gross the requisite colour.

According to Rajasthan’s College Education Commissioner Om Prakash Bairwa, the bid was simply “indicative” and the colleges were escaped to “use different colours if they want”. “There is nary governmental contented progressive successful this,” helium said.

But the Opposition Congress has accused the state’s BJP authorities led by Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma of “doing petty politics”, with the authorities Congress main Govind Singh Dotasra dismissing the government’s assertion that it was “merely indicative”.

“The BJP authorities has nary volition of improving the acquisition presumption of the authorities by adding bully computers oregon amended teaching facilities oregon infrastructure. The BJP conscionable wants to enactment an imprint of its ideology connected the students. There is nary specified happening arsenic indicative successful this order, which intelligibly states that colour overgarment has to beryllium successful 2 colours, including orange,” helium said.

The usage of saffron colour successful acquisition facilities has agelong been arguable successful the state. Under the erstwhile BJP authorities helmed by Vasundhara Raje, the organisation of saffron coloured bicycles kicked disconnected a large governmental storm. While the Congress changed the colour to black, the Bhajan Lal authorities went backmost to saffron earlier this year.