The Congress on April 5 fielded a fresh face, Arvind Damor, as its candidate from the Banswara-Dungarpur seat in Rajasthan for the Lok Sabha election. With this, the Congress has announced its candidates for all the 25 Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan.
Mr. Damor, at present serving as State Youth Congress general secretary, filed his nomination papers on the last day of the schedule. Earlier in the day, the Congress announced former Minister and three-time Banswara MLA Arjun Singh Bamaniya as its candidate from the seat reserved for Scheduled Tribes, but he did not file his nomination in a strange turn of events.
The Congress had tried to negotiate with the Bharat Adivasi Party (BAP) for a possible alliance but had not been successful. The BAP, which has emerged as a force to reckon with in the tribal-dominated districts in southern Rajasthan, has announced its founder-member and Chorasi MLA Rajkumar Roat as its candidate from Banswara-Dungarpur. The BJP has fielded Congress turncoat and former Minister Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya in the constituency.
