As the national leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hitherto failed to address the problem of infighting within its Rajasthan unit, the Congress hopes to recover the ground that it lost due to omissions and commissions of the four-year rule of Ashok Gehlot government. As such, the Congress went into election mode whole-hog for 2013 assembly polls on Friday with a Sankalp (resolve) Rally to mark the 128th Foundation Day of the Indian National Congress when speaker after speaker took on the BJP and urged workers to ensure the party's victory.
In December, when the BJP was enveloped by the euphoria of the Gujarat victory, the party in Rajasthan displayed its vertical division. Former chief minister Vasundhara Raje camp and a section of party's senior leaders were seen taking on each other in not-so discreet manner. Upset over the reluctance of the party leadership to declare her as the chief ministerial candidate ahead of the elections, Raje is busy evolving her strategy to deal with them. Moreover, she has reportedly conveyed her desire to replace state president Arun Chaturvedi with somebody of her choice, if not her
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