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ASHOK Gehlot has not forgotten the 2019 loss of his son Vaibhav Gehlot from the Jodhpur Lok Sabha seat when he himself was the CM. The senior Congress leader has been determined to ensure there is no repeat as Vaibhav contests from Jalore this time.
As Rajasthan wraps up 2024 Lok Sabha elections with voting for 13 seats on Friday, the Congress seems confident of ending its 10-year dry run in the state. In 2014 and 2019, the BJP and the NDA led by it, respectively, won all the 25 seats in Rajasthan.
FROM Prime Minister Narendra Modi to multiple visits by Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma and state ministers, from former WWE wrestler Khali to actor and its Lok Sabha candidate Kangana Ranaut, and even a “non-political” programme by religious guru Dhirendra Shastri, the BJP is leaving no stone unturned in its bid to ensure the re-election of Union minister Kailash Choudhary from Barmer.
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:
The Congress and its allies are hoping to break the trend where the NDA won all 25 seats in Rajasthan in 2014 and 2019. Hamza Khan met Congress Rajasthan chief Govind Singh Dotasra and the state’s only Left and INDIA bloc candidate Amra Ram in Sikar earlier this week. While Dotasra is an MLA from Laxmangarh in Sikar, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Amra Ram lost the Assembly election last year. Excerpts from an interview with the two leaders:
“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.
IN BOTH 2014 and 2019, the BJP-led NDA made a clean sweep of all the 25 Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan. As 12 seats go to polls in the first phase on Friday, the Congress hopes to break that trend this time.
Two days after the Congress announced Sunil Sharma as its candidate for the Jaipur Lok Sabha seat, a controversy erupted over his candidature after his association with The Jaipur Dialogues, a right-wing organisation known for ridiculing Congress and its leaders, came to light.