Rajasthan Assembly building
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its first list of candidates for Rajasthan assembly election. The first list consists of 41 candidates. What is surprising is that as many as 7 member of parliaments (MPs) figure in that 41 member list.
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While BJP Rajya Sabha MP Kirorilal Meena is fielded from Sawaimadhopur assembly seat, Lok Sabha MP from Alwar, Balaknath will contest from Tizara assembly constituency. Party’s Ajmer MP Bhagirath Choudhary will be contesting from Kishangarh seat while Jhunjhjunu MP Narendra Kumar is going to be fielded from Mandawa seat and Rajsamand MP Diyakumari to contest from Vidhyadhar Nagar in Jaipur city. Jaipur-Rural MP Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore will contest from Jhotwara in Jaipur and Jalore-Sirohi MP Devji Patel from Sanchore.
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Chandramohan Meena, retired IAS officer, will be contesting the Bassi (Jaipur) constituency. Subhash Mahariay, who joined the saffron outfit recently from the Congress, will be contesting the Sikar constituency. Gurjar Andolan patriarch, late Col Kirori Singh Bainsla’s son Vijay Bainsla is all set to contest the Deoli-Uniara (the Tonk district) seat.
Vidhyadhar Nagar seat , currently being held by Narpat Singh Rajvi, son-in-law of former vice-president late B S Shekhawat, has been given alloted to Diyakumari, Lok Sabha MP from Rajsamand
