Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje's office  issues a statement over reports of a show of strength by party MLAs.


Raje's office blamed the media saying, it was trying to malign the image of the CM. The statement said there was no signature campaign by 120 MLAs in the CM's favour. Vasundhara Raje meets party MLAs every Friday, this has nothing to do with show of strength, her office said.


The 62-year-old leader has a history of locking horns with the central leadership when attempts were made to clip her wings. When then BJP president Rajnath Singh asked her to step down as leader of opposition in the state after a rout in the 2009 polls, she sent 57 of the party's 78 MLAs to Delhi, in a show of strength, and threatened to walk out of the party.


However,  a top BJP leader told Rediff.com that neither External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj nor the Rajasthan Chief Minister would be asked to resign, despite the growing calls from the Opposition for them to quit over the help extended to former IPL chief Lalit Modi.


The senior leader said that the external affairs minister had done nothing wrong and therefore the chapter was closed.


In the case of Raje, the leader said that only after proper investigation by the party, will leaders resign in such circumstances -- now or in future.