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Has Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje been good administrator, poor politician?

Politicking for sheer survival got the better of Vasundhara Raje's reforms and welfare agenda in her second stint as Rajasthan chief minister

Amit shah, Vasundhra Raje
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In her second stint as the Rajasthan chief minister, even state Congress leaders unofficially acknowledged that Vasundhara Raje cannot be faulted for being short of an agenda and policies.  A retired civil engineer, now with the Congress, said, “Left to herself, without outside intervention and interference, she might have set a record for conceptualising and possibly implementing a range of schemes and reforms, imbued with some sort of a vision.” 

At the “Resurgent Rajasthan” summit she hosted to attract investors in 2015, Vasundhara claimed that the Rajasthan model of development was underpinned on the “triad of social justice, effective governance