Barely two months after she was reinstated by her party as the Leader of Opposition in the Rajasthan Assembly, BJP central leadership has started getting complaints against former state chief minister Vasundhara Raje’s style of functioning.
A section of senior BJP leaders from the state, it was learnt, had complained against Ms Raje to the party’s top brass for interfering into recent appointments made by state unit chief Arun Chaturvedi. These appointments were made after consulting the central leadership. Sources disclosed Ms Raje had raised objections to some of the appointments of district heads made by the BJP state unit chief.
It could be mentioned that Ms Raje, who was reinstated as the Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, had to quit the post after a section of party leaders sided with the central leadership which had asked for her resignation after party’s poor performance in general and Assembly polls. On earlier occasions also, the central leadership had received complaints against Ms Raje’s style of functioning and BJP top brass had to intervene on such occasions to quell the dissent.
Sources said before the party decided to reinstate her as the Leader of Opposition, despite some of the state unit leaders opposed to such a move, BJP top brass had asked Ms Raje to work in sync with other leaders.
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Advani: Cong lost ‘political bearings’
Age Correspondent
New Delhi
April 24: Continuing his tirade against the UPA government, L.K. Advani on Sunday said numerous scams and reprimands by the Supreme Court to the Manmohan Singh government on the corruption issue are “forceful pointers to its loss of moral centre ethical deficit.” Mr Advani also said that government’s “stubborn refusal” to learn any lessons from the Fukushima disaster shows how it “had lost even its political bearings.”
Writing on the issue in his blog, Mr Advani said the “only serious trial of strengths” of the Manmohan Singh government was the trust vote in July 2008.
“The government, reduced to a minority, decided to win the confidence vote by bribing MPs. And this was done openly and shamelessly,” Mr Advani said.