BJP criticised the ruling UPA for its "failure" to bring in the Women's Reservation bill aimed at reserving seats for women in Parliament and state legislature.
NEW DELHI: In an apparent bid to counter the UPA campaign for its woman Presidential candidate, the BJP on Monday proposed a gender-based reservation in the organisation. BJP chief Rajnath Singh told the party's National Executive that the organisation could have 33 per cent reservation for women in in the party set up.
He criticised the ruling UPA for its "failure" to bring in the Women's Reservation bill aimed at reserving seats for women in Parliament and state legislature.
In his inaugural address, party sources said Singh also laid emphasis on discipline apparently in the light of massive dissidence his party is facing in almost all states under its rule.
While disaffection has grown among the party's central leaders against their chief, especially after he carried out a revamp in work allocation, its state units too are facing mounting dissidence.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, Gujarat's Narendra Modi and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh are believed to be under fire from their own party colleagues because of their style of functioning.
In Gujarat, supporters of former chief minister Keshubhai Patel are up in arms against Modi, who has been dropped from the BJP's parliamentary board by Rajnath Singh, but is backed by Advani.
In Rajasthan, anti-Raje lobby, BJP sources say, has stepped up its intra-party campaign against the chief minister in the wake of the Gurjar-Meena crisis.
Some BJP MLAs opposed to Raje are understood to have taken their complaint to the party leadership in Delhi and to the RSS in Nagpur.
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