Juggling with controversies is her forte, but dealing with contradictions is certainly not her strength

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The flowing mane of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje (fondly called Vasu by friends) symbolizes her inherent traits – unbound and free-fl owing. Even in the face of the worst crisis of her life – the violent Gujjar agitation – Raje was unwavering. Whether it was her controversial lip-lock with Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar Shaw or the hackles raised about her catwalk (as Union Minister of State for Small Scale Industries) at a Bangalore fashion show to promote Khadi, Raje has always faced challenges with a dauntless front.

Be it her marriage or separation, personal life or political career, she has always been as far away from controversies as her own shadow. She holds a unique distinction of being a Maratha Rajput by birth and a Jat by marriage, who married her son in Gujjar community. If these factors contributed in lobbying all these influential communities behind her in 2003 Assembly elections, leading to the biggest ever victory for BJP in Rajasthan, the slippery caste equations may prove to be her nemesis as well. She was again in the center of storm last month after one of her supporter-MLAs depicted her as Goddess Annapurna in a calendar widely distributed in the state. An FIR was registered against her and the MLA – not by an opposition Congress leader but by the wife of BJP stalwart, Jaswant Singh, (leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha.) “I am not answerable for acts of somebody else, not even of my wife, who exercises her franchise and applies her own mind,” reasoned Singh. But the act betrays a sense of discontent against Vasundhara’s “sycophantic” leadership.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

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