New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) A 35-year-old woman activist of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) set herself ablaze in the national capital Sunday following some personal problems, police said.

Rajni Kulshektra, who was unmarried, set herself on fire at her residence in Shahdara in east Delhi Sunday afternoon, a police officer said.

'She has suffered 70 percent burn injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital where she is undergoing treatment,' the officer said.