The head of the BJP's Kota district OBC wing, Ashok Choudhary, has written to party chief Amit Shah, seeking replacement for Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and state party chief Ashok Parnami, ahead of the state Assembly polls due this year. The BJP lost two Lok Sabha seats and one Assembly seat in the recently held bypolls in Rajasthan, the results of which were declared on February 1.


The next day, Choudhary wrote to Shah in his party letterhead, saying, "The people of the state are not happy with Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje's style of functioning. The party workers are losing confidence due to her working style."


Describing Parnami as a "slave of Raje", Choudhary alleged that he was continuously causing damage to the organisation. Claiming that Raje had fallen into the bureaucracy "trap", he said the chief minister was leading the party on to a path that headed nowhere but towards defeat. -- PTI