New Delhi, Sep 30 (Inditop.com) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is still hopeful that its defiant Rajasthan leader Vasundhara Raje, who continues to be unwell for over a month, will resign as leader of opposition in the state as soon as she recovers.
The former Rajasthan chief minister conveyed to the party leadership over a month ago that she was unwell and could not submit her resignation. She was asked to quit after the party’s debacle in the state in the Lok Sabha elections and earlier in the assembly polls.
“She is still unwell… She will abide by party’s decision,” BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad maintained while talking to Inditop.
Raje had reached Delhi Aug 31 to submit her resignation but did not do so and conveyed to the party leadership that she was unwell.
She wrote a letter to the party top brass that she would need a week’s rest. A month later, there is no further news from Raje’s camp.
Raje, who is being blamed for the BJP’s debacle in the two elections, was asked by party chief Rajnath Singh to quit.
She sent her son Dushyant Singh to meet M. Venkaiah Naidu, who is handling the Rajasthan crisis for the party.
Raje had initially refused to resign, arguing that she alone could not be held responsible for the poll debacle.
Over 50 of BJP’s 78 legislators in Rajasthan came down to Delhi Aug 14 and met Rajnath Singh. They shouted slogans outside party veteran L.K. Advani’s residence after he refused to meet them.
Finally, sources said, a compromise formula was worked out under which Raje would resign but on certain conditions — that she be given a plum organisational post, her successor in Rajasthan should be of her choice and two MLAs suspended for backing her be reinstated in the party.
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