Barmer’s 26-year-old Independent face Ravindra Bhati: ‘When needed (by BJP), I was deshbhakt, now that I am contesting I am deshdrohi’
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: