It’s ‘rich royalty’ vs ‘grass-roots loyalty’ in Raj BJP

By Archana Sharma Jaipur, Feb 2 : The infighting in the Rajasthan unit of BJP is out in open as a clear-cut fight is on between former CM Vasundhara Raje, who represents erstwhile royalty, and state BJP chief Satish Poonia, who represents the grass roots and is a known loyalist of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah.
Raje has been camping in Delhi for the last one week, meeting all top central BJP leaders while Poonia has been meeting the grass-roots workers in Rajasthan and chalking out strategies to win the Assembly polls in 2023.
Raje is anguished with the central and state leadership for denial of decent positions at any level to her camp followers while Poonia and his team are engaged in forming maximum number of boards after springing a surprise on the ruling Congress by winning 25 of the 90 boards and leaving the Congress with mere 19.
If sources are to be believed, Raje has been allotted a well-defined room with her name plate in the new BJP office in Delhi. However, she has not visited this office even once.
However, she is quite active on Twitter these days, offering comments on state politics.
Also, her followers recently floated a parallel platform called ‘Team Vasundhara Raje 2023’ wherein they are portraying her as the next CM face. However, Raje is all silence, neither accepting this group nor offering any denial.