Amid political turmoil in Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje keeps mum

NEW DELHI: Former Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje has remained conspicuously silent on the political crisis in the state even as her party colleagues have spoken on the developments and criticised the Ashok Gehlot government for herding ministers and MLAs in a resort when the state is fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.
Raje has been active on social media, reacting to various issues, but has not uttered a single word on the Congress infighting, which has been going on since the Rajya Sabha polls.
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Most state leaders, including BJP vice-president Om Mathur, Union minister Gajendra Singh and state president Satish Poonia have repeatedly attacked the state government but Raje has preferred silence, an unusual stance when the Gehlot government is facing the challenge of survival.

Nagaur MP and BJP ally Hanuman Beniwal on Thursday claimed that Raje has been trying to save the “minority” government of Gehlot. “Former chief minister Vasundhara Raje is leaving no stone unturned to save the minority government of Ashok Gehlot. She has made calls to several Congress MLAs,” Beniwal tweeted. The Jat leader has had an uneasy equation with Raje.

A sense of unease is simmering as BJP leaders await developments with the party's stance on a floor test yet to be firmed up. There were reports that Raje might be in Jaipur on Wednesday but that did not happen. It is clear that the BJP strategy is essentially being framed in Delhi by the BJP leadership.
Shekhawat, however, continued attacking Gehlot, saying the government’s countdown had begun. “Gehlot government will fall soon. People have started counting days of its survival,” he said.