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After being wiped out from Rajasthan in two straight Lok Sabha elections, the Congress has breached the BJP stronghold and surpassed its own expectations in the process.
The Congress on Tuesday ended its decade-long Lok Sabha seat drought in Rajasthan, bagging eight constituencies even as it helped allies win three others. This will come as a boost for the party after the drubbing it received in the state Assembly election less than six months ago.
Congress veteran Kamla Beniwal, who served as Rajasthan’s Deputy Chief Minister and held the post of Governor in three states, died Wednesday in Jaipur. She was 97.
NO ONE in the BJP minority cell wants to talk about their now-expelled Bikaner unit president, Usman Gani. Days afterGani was expelled from the BJP over remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech referring to Muslims, and two days after he was arrested for alleged “breach of peace”, party leaders are quiet, as are Gani’s family members.
Two-time BJP MP Om Birla is facing a tough contest in his Kota Lok Sabha seat, which votes on April 26. One reason is his “absence” from his constituency during his last term, in which he served as the Lok Sabha Speaker. The second is his challenger, the Congress’s Prahlad Gunjal, a former BJP leader and Vasundhara Raje loyalist.
Rajasthan BJP chief C P Joshi is facing a tough contest from the Chittorgarh Lok Sabha seat, which he won the last two times, with both the Rajput community and opium farmers angry with the party.
Ravindra Bhati, 26, is a rising star in Rajasthan politics, who has been a student union president, MLA and now a Lok Sabha poll candidate –contesting all three times as an Independent. He is currently pitted against the sitting BJP MP and Union minister Kailash Choudhary and the Congress’s Ummeda Ram Beniwal in a triangular contest in the Barmer Lok Sabha constituency. Bhati speaks to The Indian Express on a range of issues, sounding confident about his prospects. Excerpts:
“EACH ONE is unique” reads the title of Chapter 2 of the Class 4 English textbook of Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education. Along with a person’s story, it has his photo in action – his left amputated arm in the front and the right arm holding a javelin.