Rajasthan Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje has visited the Ma Pitambara temple in Datiya, Madhya Pradesh, twice in July.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje reached Datia in Madhya Pradesh earlier this week to offer prayers at the famous Ma Pitambara temple. She reportedly sequestered herself in a room at the temple for almost three days and performed a special puja.
Ms Raje, 62, has been under heavy opposition fire for what is being called Lalitgate - the Congress and other parties want her removed for her links with tainted cricket moghul Lalit Modi. They have disrupted Parliament every day of the monsoon session so far demanding that Ms Raje and two other BJP leaders caught in scandals must resign.
The Ma Pitambara temple is known to be visited by politicians going through a rough patch in their lives and careers; they perform puja here hoping for divine help to get things back to normal.
The Rajasthan chief minister reached the temple on July 29 and was there till the 31st, when she returned to her state. Sources at the temple said she spoke only to the head priest Acharya Shree Ram Panda during her stay and performed puja, reciting bhajans.
On July 31, she performed the guru poornima puja on a full moon, considered auspicious in Hindu tradition.
Datia is about 100 km from Gwalior, where Vasundhara Raje's family, the Scindias, are erstwhile royals.
Ms Raje, who is also the chairman of the Ma Pitambara board, visited the temple twice in July. On an earlier visit she was accompanied by her son Dushyant, a BJP lawmaker also targeted by the Congress in Lalitgate.
The BJP has so far backed Ms Raje, who led the party to a sweep of the 2013 Rajasthan assembly elections unseating the Congress. In the national elections held five months later, the BJP had won all 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state.