Jaipur, Oct 15 (PTI) The BJP's Rajasthan unit chief Madan Rathore on Tuesday said the expenses for airlifting his wife for medical treatment were borne by her firm, as he hit back at Nagaur MP Hanuman Beniwal for alleging the bus fire victims did not get the same facility.

Twenty people were burnt alive, and 16 were critically injured in Rajasthan when a private bus travelling from Jaisalmer to Jodhpur suddenly went up in flames on Tuesday afternoon.

Responding to Beniwal's barb, Rathore explained that he did not use government resources for his wife's airlifting and asserted that the Nagaur MP's statement was "insensitive and reflective of a degraded mindset".

"Not a single rupee came from the government. Those who never paid their electricity bills or vacated government houses are now

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