NEW DELHI/JAIPUR: A day after getting a "clean chit" from the BJP brass over her support to former IPL chief Lalit Modi and financial irregularities against her son and MP Dushyant Singh's firm, Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje on Saturday arrived in the national capital to attend the meeting of the NITI Aayog.
This is Vasundhara Raje's first trip to Delhi after media revelations about her alleged help to Lalit Modi.
Expected to be in the national capital for the next two days, the chief minister is likely to meet the BJP top brass. Though, the CMO officials claimed that no meeting with any of the senior leaders is scheduled as yet.
On Friday, the BJP leadership accepted Raje's explanation that she never filed before British authorities a statement supporting Lalit Modi's claim for residence permit.
Raje told the leadership that she had prepared and signed the statement in 2011 on the urging of the former IPL boss's ailing wife and her old friend Minal, but withdrew herself from the process through an email in 2013 to avoid controversies because of the spate of legal issues surrounding the cricket entrepreneur which came up in the interim.
The central leadership, which reviewed the documents, accepted her claim and has decided to let her continue as CM. "You can say that she got swayed by her sentiments for an ailing friend and came to the brink of committing an indiscretion, but Raje cannot be accused of an illegality or a crime," said a source, summing up the party's stand.
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