Shekhawat's non-particpation in Indian Freedom Struggle is well known.
Shekhawat, as the Opposition Leader of Rajasthan Assembly, had written to then Chief Minister Harideo Joshi pleading for the release of a heroin smuggler who was operating on the Indo-Pakistan border and was caught in Barmer. Shekhawat even had to admit, when confronted on the floor of the House with the letter, that he did plead for the smuggler's release.
A drug smuggler, Ashwini Bharadwaj, who claimed publicly that he had provided 12 jeeps for Shekhawat's election campaign and also funded the entire election campaign of his son-in-law Rajvi.
The son-in-law also has been involved in more than a couple of land scams, one involving over 250 bighas. When the matter came up before Shekhawat when he was the Chief Minister, he covered it up saying that matter had been referred to CBI and it had given his son-in-law a clean chit.
But later it was found that no such matter had been referred to the CBI at all and no enquiry therefore had taken place.
A blade company Amfort which he had inaugurated, had gobbled up crore of rupees of deposits by ordinary farmers and disappeared. Several cases were filed across Rajasthan and one FIR even named Shekhawat in it on the orders of a court. However the dalit SP, Mahavir Prasad who had ordered the registration of the FIR, was harassed so much that he died of brain hemorrhage.
