After BJP's royal snub, will Vasundhara Raje resign?

Vasundhra Raje's rebellion has been snubbed. She moved her loyal MLAs to Delhi to lobby against the sack order. But the pictures are telling. About 50 MLAs waiting outside L K Advani's House. Sitting on the pavement. But Advani's doors remained closed.

Vasundhra had hoped, like in the past, Advani would back her. But Advani was party to the sack order. Also meeting the rebels would have made the revolt credible. Advani and party president Rajnath met.  and sent a clear signal that Raje has to resign. 

The top leadership remained tightlipped. I am not going to say anything, said BJP president Rajnath Singh. The unrest in BJP's Rajasthan unit is not over.

Vasundhra Raje displayed her might to signal that her rivals wont inherit the post she vacates.

While Raje loyalists will hold a special meeting in New Delhi to decide their final strategy, the anti-Raje camp says actions of the MLAs amount to indiscipline.

"She is misusing MLAs and instigating them to work against the party. I hope the Central leadership will think about all this," says Hari Shanker Bhabra, a former deputy CM of Rajasthan.

The desert storm is bad news for the BJP. Rajnath wants Raje to go -- as she failed in the state. But now ordinary workers are raising the accountability issue -- which the BJP's top has been dodging since the Lok Sabha defeat. "How can this be done. Every leader has to take responsibility...every leader was part of the election," says party MLA Kamla Devi.

This is perhaps the most astounding statement on the state of affairs in the BJP. Rebel MLAs outside Advani's house, while the gates remain closed. Every day a new fissure appears in the BJP. Each day an old divide gets wider.