The Opposition BJP declared the names of 83 candidates in its second list, while fielding former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje from her traditional seat, Jhalrapatan, for the Rajasthan Assembly election to be held on November 25.
The BJP’s list of 83 nominees took the total number of the party’s candidates declared so far to 124. Unlike the first list released on October 9, in which seven MPs were fielded, the second list did not contain the names of any Parliamentarians.
The BJP has fielded several loyalists of Ms. Raje in a balancing act after the first list having sidelined them. While Ms. Raje will contest from Jhalrapatan, which she has been winning since 2003, her supporter and former Minister Narpat Singh Rajvi, who was dropped from his Vidyadhar Nagar seat in Jaipur, was given a ticket from Chittorgarh.
