Ahead of the Rajasthan assembly elections later this year, a BJP leader quit the party on Tuesday, accusing state Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje of functioning like an autocrat. The state unit's former spokesperson and former member of the BJP's national economic forum Sunil Bhargava said he had sent his resignation letter to party president Rajnath Singh.
The resignation is seen by political analysts as an indication of the growing dissidence against former chief minister Raje being projected as the chief ministerial candidate in the upcoming assembly elections
Sunil Bhargava had written a letter to Rajnath Singh on July 12 drawing attention to the problems plaguing the BJP in the state, and he was sad that despite passing of two months since he had written, nothing concrete had been done to improve things in the party in the state. He accused Vasundhara Raje as an 'autocratic style of functioning and he said that Vasundhara Raje remained away from party affairs, for over four years, and returned only to enjoy being in power here.
In an effort to placate senior leader Gulab Chand Kataria, who was at loggerheads with Raje, the party leadership appointed him leader of opposition in the assembly. Sunil Bhargava said alleging that Raje ill-treated party workers and said that he has been a committed worker of the party for the last over 40 years, but he felt that party in the state was now been run by sycophants. People close to Raje and from outside the state were taking most decisions.
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