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VASUNDHARA, SELF-ATTESTED

he BJP high command, it seems, has had a late realisation that it may not be wise to alienate ex-chief minister Vasundhara Raje any further, especially in an election year. The 69-year-old Raje had declared some three weeks ago that she planned to hold her birthday celebrations on March 4 instead of on her birth date (March 8) so that it does not overlap with the Holi festivities. But true to form, the state leadership put a spanner in the works. Out of the blue, Rajasthan BJP chief Satish Poonia announced that the party would join its student wing, the

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