‘Couldn’t sleep, was stressed’: Cong’s Dalit LoP on BJP chief ‘purifying’ Rajasthan temple after his go to | Political Pulse Information

Nevertheless, as the problem led to an outcry, with Ahuja saying that Jully’s “impure” palms and ft had “desecrated” the temple, Jully’s family and friends began calling him up, resulting in many extra questions on the Congress chief’s thoughts.

“They have been all fairly involved – I felt, increasingly more, that I’m the Chief of Opposition. That I’m representing all of the 66 Opposition MLAs (of Congress). That I’m a frontrunner of the over 100-year-old Congress get together, which fought for Independence. Whether it is taking place to me, what have to be taking place to the frequent man…. That it’s a very severe concern. I couldn’t sleep correctly for 2 days, I used to be stressed,” stated Jully, who was the Cupboard minister for the Social Justice Division within the earlier Congress authorities.

Amidst this, the Ahmedabad session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), held earlier this week, got here as a well timed succour. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior chief Rahul Gandhi spoke in regards to the incident on the session, whereas the latter additionally had a chat with Jully in regards to the incident. “When he (Rahul) stored his hand on my shoulder, I felt that my chief was with me… It was overwhelming,” he stated.

Kharge and Rahul talking about it made him really feel “apnapan (a way of belonging). It helped me loads, I felt that I wasn’t alone, and that there are folks standing with me, that my get together is with me,” stated Jully.

“…I couldn’t sleep correctly for 2 days, I used to be stressed,” stated Jully. (Specific picture)

He stated the problem raised from the stage of the AICC session “highlighted that even this present day, there’s untouchability within the society. It helped the problem attain the place it hadn’t earlier and can curb discrimination – that it ought to finish. It not solely helped unfold consciousness however may also restrain those that harbour such emotions.”

Because the incident on April 7, the calls and the visits from his well-wishers haven’t stopped. There have been two sorts of responses from folks, stated Jully. “Half are being supportive and sympathising, whereas some others are aggressive… I’ve advised them to not cross the road set by the Structure, given to us by Babasaheb Ambedkar.”

Zila Parishad to Cupboard

The AICC meet couldn’t have come at a greater time for Jully, who has had his fair proportion of luck over the previous 20 years and entered politics “by likelihood, by luck”.

His father Lekhram, who used to run a stone enterprise, was a sarpanch in Alwar from Kathuwas, and linked politically, “however that was it. I had by no means considered becoming a member of politics,” he stated.

The Alwar Zila Pramukh seat was introduced as reserved, and Jully was requested to contest as his father was inquisitive about contesting a Panchayat Samiti election as a substitute. Though initially disinterested, maybe on account of his enterprise and an obvious lack of curiosity in politics, Jully threw his hat within the ring and went on to grow to be a councillor and the Zila Pramukh in 2005.

He then devoted himself to his work and shortly began making an affect. “Tika Ram Jully 100 per cent MGNREGA ki den hai (Tika Ram Jully is the whole lot as a consequence of MGNREGA),” he stated. As Zila Pramukh, he stated he accepted works price Rs 1 – 1.5 crore in most panchayats “which was historic. Again then the wages have been simply Rs 100, and every panchayat samiti had like a thousand job playing cards.”

By 2008, delimitation occurred and luck struck once more when the Alwar Rural seat was created and reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SCs). Jully contested and defeated the BJP’s Jagdish Prasad by 8,525 votes. “Like Zila Pramukh, I had by no means imagined changing into an MLA, however since folks maybe favored my work as Zila Pramukh, I grew to become an MLA simply,” he stated.

Amidst all this, backing Jully was Bhanwar Jitendra Singh, then a rising Congress star himself, and a part of Rahul Gandhi’s interior circle. Nevertheless, a setback got here within the 2013 elections, when Jully misplaced by 26,799 votes to the BJP’s Jairam Jatav as a consequence of a division of votes on account of a triangular contest on the seat.

Finally, Jully was appointed the get together’s Alwar district president in 2016 – he held this put up till 2022 – and labored with then state get together president Sachin Pilot. In 2018, Jully received from the Alwar Rural seat once more by 26,477 votes. He was then appointed as a Minister of State and given a number of portfolios within the third Ashok Gehlot authorities (2018-23) earlier than being promoted because the Cupboard minister for Social Justice and Empowerment in addition to Jails in November 2021.

Along with his political capital on the rise now, some BJP leaders have claimed that there was an influence battle between him and state Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra, whilst each have often launched sharp assaults on the Bhajan Lal Sharma authorities within the Meeting.

Following an deadlock within the Home throughout the Price range session, Jully had apologised on Dotasra’s behalf to Speaker Vasudev Devnani, which, as per the BJP, didn’t sit properly with Dotasra.

Jully, nevertheless, stated it was a “notion set by the BJP.” He identified that when “Devnani was suspended (in 2021) for heading in direction of the then Speaker’s chair, it was Rajendra Rathore who had apologised on his behalf because the LoP. And when Rathore was suspended earlier than that, Gulab Chand Kataria had tendered an apology because the LoP.”