BJP announces candidates against Gehlot, Pilot in third list for Rajasthan
The Hindu
BJP announces 3rd list of 58 candidates for Rajasthan Assembly election, fielding 8 sitting MLAs & 7 women. Mahendra Singh Rathore to challenge CM Gehlot in Sardarpura, Ajit Singh Mehta to contest against Pilot in Tonk. Subhash Meel & Darshan Gujjar, former Cong leaders, also fielded.
The Opposition BJP in Rajasthan on Thursday announced its candidates against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and former Deputy CM Sachin Pilot in its third list, comprising 58 candidates, for the November 25 State Assembly election. The party nominated eight sitting MLAs again and also fielded seven women candidates for the polls.
Mahendra Singh Rathore, a Professor in Jodhpur’s Jai Narain Vyas University and a former Chairperson of the Jodhpur Development Authority, has been fielded from Sardarpura seat, where Mr. Gehlot has been winning since 1998. Prof. Rathore earlier headed the university’s Department of Business Finance and Economics.
Former MLA Ajit Singh Mehta will challenge Mr. Pilot in his Tonk constituency. He had won the 2013 Assembly election in Tonk, defeating Congress rebel Saud Saidi, who is now considered a loyalist of Mr. Pilot. Mr. Pilot was elected from Tonk in 2018, when he defeated the BJP’s Yunus Khan.
The BJP has given tickets to two former Congress leaders, Subhash Meel and Darshan Gujjar, who had joined the party just a day previously. Mr. Meel will contest the election from Khandela and Mr. Gujjar from Karauli. Udailal Dangi, who shifted from the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) to the BJP, has been fielded from Vallabhnagar.
The BJP’s third list, which came a day after the party’s Central Election Committee met in New Delhi, has taken the total number of candidates to 182 for the 200-member Assembly.
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