New Delhi: Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje on Sunday said she didn’t intend to quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and had not spoken against its leaders but didn’t clarify if she would resign as her state’s Leader of the Opposition.
“I've never thought of leaving the BJP. My mother spent her life looking after the party's interests. I've never said anything against the BJP or the party's leaders,” said Raje in a statement. “I will not float a new party.”
Raje has refused to follow BJP president Rajnath Singh’s instruction to resign as Leader of Opposition. She argues that she alone could not be blamed for the party’s defeat in the General Elections, which left it with four Lok Sabha seats compared to 21 in the 2004 polls.
PTI, while quoting an MLA who supports the former chief minister, said Raje would accept the decision of BJP’s parliamentary board meeting on Sunday. "Whatever the BJP Parliamentary board decides, it will be acceptable to the BJP legislature party", said Alwar legislator Gyan Deo Ahuja.
"So far, there has been no official communication seeking Raje's resignation," said Ahuja. Raje leads the BJP’s state legislature party.
On Friday, around 57 BJP legislators from Rajasthan went to the residence of senior party leader L K Advani in New Delhi to express solidarity with former Raje.
The legislators first met Rajnath Singh and later went to the residence of Advani, who snubbed them by declining to meet them without a proper appointment.
(With inputs from PTI and IANS)
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