New Delhi, August 14: A group of 45 Rajasthan BJP MLAs supporting Vasundhara Raje today met party president Rajnath Singh in a bid to pressurise him against the high command’s decision to remove her from the post of leader of opposition in the assembly.
The MLAs from the Rajasthan assembly reached the residence of Singh this morning and sought a meeting with the senior leader. They were accompanied by some office bearers of the Rajasthan party unit.
These MLAs are understood to have conveyed that majority of the 78 MLAs in the state assembly were with Raje, defying the party directive.
The former Rajasthan chief minister was asked to step down a few days back by the BJP and RSS central leadership.
The decision to remove her was taken after she failed to deliver and take party cadre along in the Vidhan Sabha and the Lok Sabha elections.
–PTI