Rajasthan: Former chief minister Vasundhara Raje back on BJP posters as party moves to ‘patch up’ rift | Jaipur News
Recently, the party had removed her photos from posters and banners outside the state BJP headquarters which had left former CM’s followers anguished and annoyed besides stirring up a controversy. The party leaders claimed that her photos were removed as currently she was not holding any position in the party state unit.
The poster put by city BJP unit carries pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party president J P Nadda, Bhupender Yadav, state BJP chief Satish Poonia, leader of opposition Gulab Chand Kataria, Union ministers including Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Arjun Ram Meghwal and Kailash Chaudhary and Raje.
Raje recently broke her silence on the poster controversy. “I don’t believe in the politics of posters, but want to rule and dwell in the hearts of people,” she had said after an aerial survey of the flood-hit areas of Kota.
State BJP chief Satish Poonia, Bhupender Yadav & state party in-charge Arun Singh at the ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’.
Soon after Raje broke her silence, Poonia took a dig at at her and said, “I make ground visits, not aerial surveys.”
Gehlot and Patel fighting for chair, says Union Min Bhupendra Yadav
Union minister Bhupendra Yadav on Thursday kicked off his Jan Ashirwad Yatra in Rajasthan from Alwar and targeted the ruling Congress saying there is a “fight for the chair” between chief minister Ashok Gehlot and senior leader Sachin Pilot.
Addressing the gathering, Yadav said while the Union government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was transforming India into ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, in the ruling Congress, a “fight between Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot for the chair (chief ministership) is going on.”
The BJP leader exuded confidence that the party would form the next government in the state. Yadav, along with Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Shekhawat, Poonia, deputy leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Rajendra Rathore and other leaders took part in the yatra. The Yatra, which begun in Gurugram, will cover Jaipur district on Friday and culminate in Ajmer, Yadav’s home district, on Saturday.
