Ashok Gehlot offers byte of Apple, BJP declares it forbidden fruit

Sunday, 27 February 2022Newsdesk

For the last couple of days at the Rajasthan Assembly, in a room adjacent to that of Leader of Opposition Gulab Chand Kataria, a box has been lying under one of the tables. Inside the carton are some new iPhone 13.

New Delhi, 27 February 2022

As per news report of The Indian Express, The seemingly innocuous box is at the centre of an aggressive political one-upmanship in Rajasthan. On February 23, after Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot tabled the state budget, the MLAs were given the phones in the budget bags handed out to them, while on their way out. It was after some time, by when Gehlot’s populist budget was dominating the headlines, as well as photos of the phones had made it to social media, that the BJP announced that its MLAs will return the phones.

Source - The Indian Express