Rajasthan CM cancels Punjab visit with Shah, Rajnath, fuels speculation

June 19, 2015 10:57

Amid the raging Lalitgate row, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today cancelled her visit to Punjab where she would have come face-to-face with BJP president Amit Shah for the first time since the damaging revelations.

"Due to back pain, the chief minister's doctor has advised her to take rest so she has cancelled her visit to Punjab today," Raje's press advisor said.

Raje, who is embroiled in a controversy over allegedly favouring tainted IPL chief Lalit Modi's immigration plea in London, was scheduled to share the dais with BJP chief Amit Shah and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh at the function in Anandpur Sahib, to celebrate 350 years of the key Sikh shrine.

Significance was being attached to the meeting as none of the BJP central leaders or the government has come to her defence since the issue came out in public.

While on the topic of Vasundhara Raje, have you read our report, Raje may go, Swaraj likely to survive?

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