Taking a lead over other political parties, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) announced candidates for three seats in the upcoming Rajasthan Assembly election. The three constituencies are situated in Dholpur and Bharatpur districts in eastern Rajasthan and two of the seats were won by BSP candidates in 2018.
The six BSP MLAs who emerged victorious in the 2018 Assembly election had merged en bloc with the ruling Congress in 2019. Though the merger was perceived as a politically astute move of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, one of these MLAs, Rajendra Gudha, has since been dismissed as a Minister and suspended from the Assembly following his controversial remarks.
BSP State president Bhagwan Singh Baba said here on Friday that the party will field Ritesh Sharma from Dholpur, Khurshid Ahmed from Nagar and Khem Karan Touli from Nadbai. Both Nagar and Nadbai fall in Bharatpur district, from where BSP’s Wajib Ali and Joginder Singh Awana, respectively, had won in 2018. Shobha Rani Kushwaha had won the Dholpur seat.
