The lady who deserved better

Vasundhara Raje may have had her faults but she is an unconventional and brave leader whose alienation from her party is now too deep to be corrected

Paradoxes abound in politics. Here’s one: Is there such a thing as a politician becoming too popular?

As former Rajasthan chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vasundhara Raje surveys the debris around her, this could be one of the questions she’s asking herself. Many of her core supporters — like five-time member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Narpat Singh Rajvi, son-in-law of the late chief minister Bhairon Singh Shekhawat — are missing from the list of BJP candidates in the upcoming Assembly elections in the state. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work out that this