Seven Members of Parliament, including Rajya Sabha member Kirodi Lal Meena, were among the 41 candidates by the BJP for the Assembly election in Rajasthan, as per the first list released on October 9. The list was made public soon after the announcement of poll schedule in five States.
Neither former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje nor any of her supporters have found a place on the list of candidates. Ms. Raje’s prominent supporters Narpat Singh Rajvi and Rajpal Singh Shekhawat were replaced by two MPs at their respective seats, Vidyadhar Nagar and Jhotwara, both in Jaipur district.
Rajsamand MP Diya Kumari will contest the polls from Vidyadhar Nagar and Jaipur Rural MP Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore from Jhotwara. While Mr. Rajvi is a sitting MLA, Mr. Shekhawat was defeated by Lalchand Kataria of Congress in the 2018 Assembly election. Both of them were Ministers in the Vasundhara Raje regime.
