This Article is From Aug 28, 2009

Relief for BJP: Raje says she's an obedient party soldier

New Delhi:

Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje has said she is ready to go to Delhi any time to talk to the party leadership. The party has summoned her to the Capital to meet senior leader M Venkaiah Naidu.

Describing herself as a "disciplined soldier of the party", Raje said on Friday, "Party comes first for me." She also pointed out that she had a "relationship with the RSS which goes back to my mother."

The former CM said: "If there is a problem we have to sit down and talk it out and I am very keen to go as soon as possible and talk it out."

"Whether I have a post or I don't, I will cherish and love the people of Rajasthan", she added.

She had a grouse though with the media and said, "There is a section of the media that without my having said anything is attributing all kinds of statements to me."

Sources said Raje was planning to reach Delhi on August 30 or 31, as Naidu was not in Delhi right now.

Raje has been in the eye of a BJP storm ever since she refused to step down as the Leader of Opposition in the Rajasthan Assembly at party president Rajnath Singh's behest. She was held responsible for the party's poor performance in the state Assembly elections and the Lok Sabha polls.

Naidu, a former party president, has been picked by the central leadership to defuse the crisis in the Rajasthan unit of the party.

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