Jaipur, February 22: After defying the BJP leadership for nearly five months, former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today resigned as leader of Opposition in the state assembly.
She submitted her resignation to Speaker Deependra Singh Shekhawat this morning, BJP whip R S Rathore told reporters here.
56-year-old Raje had refused the then BJP president Rajnath Singh’s direction to step down after she was blamed for the poor showing of the party in the Lok Sabha elections last year.
The BJP had managed to secure only 4 Lok Sabha seats in 2009 elections, a steep from the 21 they won in the 2004 elections. The Congress tally, on the other hand, went up from 4 to 20.
Adopting an aggressive stand, she had said that other senior leaders should also be held equally responsible for BJP’s poor showing and had accused the party high command of “humiliating” her.
–Agencies