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Among the many videos that went viral on June 4, the day the results for the general election were announced, one stood out — that of 26-year-old Sanjana Jatav, a Congress leader and the youngest Dalit parliamentarian to be voted in this election, dancing uninhibited to the song Rajasthani song ‘Chori tane kariyo Bharatpur jaam’ to celebrate her victory.
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.
In the five years that the BJP was out of power in Rajasthan, starting in 2018, Kirodi Lal Meena filled a vacuum in the state unit as he emerged as the face of street protests against the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government despite not holding any official position in the party. Now, a state Cabinet minister, Meena, has trained his guns on his own government over alleged corruption, sending ripples through the party at a time when it is in the middle of the Lok Sabha elections.
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.
In the heart of Rajasthan’s tribal belt, the BJP and the eight-month-old Bharat Adivasi Party (BAP) seem to be neck-and-neck in their fight for the Banswara Lok Sabha constituency even as the Congress has been forced to campaign against its own candidate.
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.
Ajami Devi, a 58-year-old resident of Kaliyan village near Sri Ganganagar city, has tears in her eyes when she speaks about her 19-year-old nephew, a drug addict who died due to drug overdose. This is a familiar story in hundreds of villages in Sri Ganganagar and Hanumangarh districts where the rising drug menace has proved disastrous for a legion of such youths and their farmer families.
“Beniwal aur Jyoti” – the contest between sitting MP and Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) founder Hanuman Beniwal and his BJP challenger Jyoti Mirdha in Rajasthan’s Nagaur seems to have ignited public discussions across the Jat-dominated parliamentary constituency, with many at chaupals and tea stalls debating which of these two Jat faces will have the upper hand.