New Delhi: The dissidence in ruling BJP in Rajasthan on Sunday reached the party's Central leadership as three of the four Rajasthan Ministers, who are up in arms against Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, meeting party president Rajnath Singh and are understood to have conveyed to him their grievances against her.

Ms. Raje is reaching Delhi on Monday to attend a meeting of the Planning Commission and likely to take the opportunity to meet the party's Central leaders to discuss the developments in the State unit of BJP.

Gulab Chand Kataria, Ghanshayam Tiwari and Madan Dilawar met the BJP chief and are understood to have explained to him their position in the wake of reports, which have been rejected by the party, that they have resigned in protest against the Chief Minister.

Mr. Singh, party sources said, has directed the State BJP chief and the general secretary (organisation) there to resolve the crisis at their level.

The meeting between the three Rajasthan Ministers and the party chief followed the BJP chief's attempts to downplay the crisis in the State unit of the party after Ms. Raje divested Mr. Dilawar of his Cooperative portfolio as dissidence against her mounted.

Earlier in the day, the BJP chief, who seemed to have triggered a row within the party by removing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from the Parliamentary Board and Arun Jaitley as spokesman, told a hurriedly-convened news briefing that he had received no complaint from anybody in Rajasthan unit.

``There is no dissidence in Rajasthan. Nor is there any resignation. I have received no complaint,'' Mr. Singh said. The crisis in the BJP Ggovernment in Rajasthan came less than a week after he announced his team following the ratification by the national council of his re-election as party chief.

Meanwhile, the chief whip of BJP in the State Assembly Mahaveer Prasad Jain accused Parliamentary Affairs Minister R. S. Rathore, considered close to Ms. Raje, of interfering in Mr. Dilawar's department which led to shifting of Cooperative Department to Prabhu Lal Saini, the Agriculture Minister, on Friday last.

``Rathore should himself refrain from such act of interference and avoid confrontation'', Mr. Jain told reporters in Jaipur.

``Disputes do arise but the CM will resolve it. But Rathore has to mend his way of working which used to hurt other ministers and MLAs'', Mr. Jain added.

PTI

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