Raje back in Jaipur, fails to meet Modi, Shah

Jaipur/New Delhi, June 27: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje returned to Jaipur on Saturday afternoon after failing to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah in the wake of charges that she helped former IPL chief Lalit Modi. The chief minister, who left on Saturday morning by helicopter to attend a NITI Aayog meeting, spent some time at her house in Delhi before flying back to Jaipur afternoon, a source close to Raje said. The source insisted that the chief minister went to Delhi only to attend a NITI Aayog meeting and that nothing else was scheduled in the national capital. However, political analysts view her failure to meet the Bharatiya Janata Party's top leaders as a snub. BJP sources said Raje, under attack from the opposition which wants her to quit, wanted to meet Prime Minister Modi, Shah as well as Home Minister Rajnath Singh to give them her side of the story on the Lalit Modi issue. "It seems that after being denied an audience by the top leadership, she felt it is better to come back to Jaipur," said a BJP functionary on the condition of anonymity.