In an apparent bid to counter the United Progressive Alliance's campaign for its woman presidential candidate, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday proposed gender-based reservation in the organisation.
BJP chief Rajnath Singh told the party's national executive that the organisation could have 33 per cent reservation for women.
He criticised the ruling UPA for its failure to bring in the Women's Reservation bill aimed at reserving seats for women in the Parliament and state legislature.
In his inaugural address, party sources said Singh also laid emphasis on discipline apparently in the light of massive dissidence his party is facing in almost all states under its rule.
While disaffection has grown among the party's central leaders against their chief, especially after he carried out a revamp in work allocation, its state units too are facing mounting dissidence.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, Gujarat's Narendra Modi and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh are believed to be under fire from their own party colleagues because of their style of functioning.
In Gujarat, supporters of former chief minister Keshubhai Patel are up in arms against Modi, who has been dropped from the BJP's parliamentary board.
In Rajasthan, the anti-Raje lobby, BJP sources say, has stepped up its campaign against the chief minister in the wake of the Gurjar-Meena crisis.
Some BJP MLAs opposed to Raje are understood to have taken their complaint to the party leadership in Delhi and to the RSS in Nagpur.
