Rai challenges Prabhakar Bhat to contest elections

Minister for Forests and Ecology Ramanath Rai has challenged RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat to contest against him. In case if he (Bhat) contests, he will not get back the deposit as well, Rai said.

Speaking to media persons on Friday, he said, "Temple grants should be used for the development of temples and not for other purposes. The government had given mid-day meal facilities to the aided school run by him. But he did not wanted mid-day meals. Instead, he wanted money. I have not come in the way of supplying mid-day meals to children. Bhat was responsible for the closure of a school that was sanctioned, for his self-interest."

There is no differences of opinion in the Congress. The real results of Gujarat assembly election will be different from exit poll results, he said.