By IANS
Jaipur : The crisis in Rajasthan’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to have blown over with new state party chief Om Prakash Mathur Monday declaring that Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje would be the party’s candidate for the post in the next elections.
“The central leadership of the party has directed that the forthcoming assembly polls would be led by present Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and she would be the future chief minister,” Mathur said here. He was addressing BJP workers at a function to felicitate him on his appointment as the state unit chief.
Rajasthan, which has 200 assembly seats, is slated to go to the polls in November.
“We have got around 10 months for the polls and I request everyone to vow that the party should return to power with more than 120 seats, that we have now in the assembly,” he said.
“I want every party worker to reach to the masses and inform them about the policies, decisions and developments carried out by the Raje government,” he said.
Raje, who also participated in the function, dismissed media reports about the crisis in the state party unit and resentment over appointment of Mathur. She said: “We are all one and united to contest the next assembly polls to return to power. We will win more than 120 seats,” Raje said.
There were reports that Raje was unhappy with the appointment of Mathur as state chief. However, the crisis came to an end after Raje met BJP national president Rajnath Singh a couple of days back in Delhi.