New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suspended its senior leader from Rajasthan, Kailash Meghwal, from the primary membership of the party for his remarks calling Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal “corrupt number one”.Kailash remained defiant, refusing to respond to a show-cause served earlier on him by BJP state president, C.P. Joshi. Upping the ante against Arjun Ram, Kailash on Wednesday, September 13, held a press conference demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi to remove the former from the Union Cabinet, The Hindu reported.The 89-year-old Kailash, who is a former speaker of Rajasthan Assembly, had accused Arjun Ram, at a public month last month, of taking crores of rupees as bribes when he had served as an officer in the state’s Churu district. Kailash had called him “corrupt number one”.The hostility between Kailash and Arjun Ram brings to the fore factionalism in the BJP ahead of state assembly elections in December this year. Kailash said the party is ridden with infighting “from top to bottom”, and the leaders close to former chief minister Vasundhara Raje are being targeted. He also said he is being sidelined in the party and is not allowed to take part in the party’s ongoing Parivartan Yatras. Kailash is seen as a political heavyweight belonging to the Raje’s faction.While stating that he has already written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi explaining the case against Arjun Ram, he said he will seek the intervention of the Election Commission to get the parliamentary membership of the latter cancelled. He also said he would contest the upcoming election on his own and defeat the BJP candidate by “thousands of votes”.