Days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came out in support of Vasundhara Raje over the Lalit Modi controversy, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday met the Rajasthan Chief Minister in Jaipur.
This comes a day after Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley claimed that the transaction between former Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi and Raje's son Dushyant were commercial.
The meeting assumes significance as it is the first meeting of the Rajasthan leader with a senior party leader since the controversy broke out, as she had earlier cancelled a trip to Punjab where she was slated to meet BJP president Amit Shah and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
After days of silence over the controversy around Raje's alleged ties with the former IPL chief, the BJP central leadership last week came out in her defence, saying the party as well as the Rajasthan CM had clarified their stand on the issue.
Addressing a press conference in the national capital, BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi had claimed that the authenticity of documents produced against the Rajasthan leader was not verified, adding that there was "no corruption and no impropriety" on her part.
Ruling out the demand of the Congress party for her resignation, Trivedi said that the demand of the opposition party was "baseless" and without any "substantive documents".
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