BJP names 83 more candidates, fields ex-CM Vasundhara Raje from Jhalrapatan

The BJP on Saturday named 83 more candidates for the Rajasthan Assembly polls including former chief minister Vasundhara Raje from her traditional Jhalrapatan seatFifty incumbent MLAs have been given tickets while nine have not been renominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP which has also not named any MP in the second listOf the 83 candidates 10 are womenWith this the BJP has so far named 124 candidates for the November 25 polls to the 200member Rajasthan AssemblySome of the supporters of Raje including two former state ministers have also been given ticketsThe saffron party has decided to field Narpat Singh Rajvi from Chittorgarh after its earlier decision to deny the fiveterm MLA who is the soninlaw of BJP stalwart Bhairon Singh Shekhawat renomination from his Vidhyadhar Nagar seatThis triggered a backlash from a section of party workersThe BJP leaderships about turn on Rajvis candidature is being seen as a damagecontrol exercise after the latter reacted angrily and cited his family legacy to hit out at the partyThe names also include Vishwaraj Singh Mewar a descendent of Maharana Pratap Singh who joined the party recently He has been fielded from Nathdwara which was won by veteran Congress leader C P Joshi in 2018Former state BJP chief Satish Poonia has been fielded from Amber the seat he currently represents in the AssemblyRajendra Rathore the BJPs leader in the Assembly has also been given a ticket However his constituency has been changed from Churu to TaranagarA seventime MLA Rathore represented Taranagar in the Assembly for just one term from 2008 to 2013Former Nagaur MP Jyoti Mirdha who joined the BJP last month has been fielded from NagaurThe incumbent MLAs who have been renominated include Balveer Singh Luthra Raisinghnagar Santosh Bawri Anupgarh Gurdeep Singh Shahpini Sangaria Dharmendra Mochi Pilibanga Siddhi Kumari Bikaner East Sumit Godara Lunkaransar Biharilal Bishnoi Nokha Rajendra Rathore Taranagar Abhinesh Maharshi Ratangarh Ramlal Sharma Chomu Nirmal Kumawat Phulera Satish Poonia Amber Kalicharan Saraf Malviya Nagar Manjeet Dharampal Chaudhary Mundawar Sanjay Sharma Alwar City Kanhaiyalal Chaudhary Malpura Suresh Singh Rawat Pushkar Vasudev Devnani Ajmer North Anita Bhadel Ajmer South Ramswaroop Lamba Nasirabad Shankar Singh Rawat Beawar Avinash Gehlot Jaitaran Shobha Chouhan Sojat Gyan Chand Parakh Pali Pushpendra Singh Bali and Joraram Kumawat SumerpurOther incumbent MLAs to get poll tickets are Hammir Singh Bhayal Siwana Chhagan Singh Rajpurohit Ahor Jogeshwar Garg Jalore Samaram Garasia PindwaraAbu Jagsiram Koli Reodar Prataplal Gameti Gogunda Babulal Kharadi Jhadol Phool Singh Meena Udaipur Rural Amrit Lal Meena Salumbar Gopichand Meena Aspur Kailash Chand Meena Garhi Surendra Singh Rathore Kumbhalgarh Deepti Maheshwari Rajsamand Jhabbar Singh Sankhla Asind Vitthalshankar Awasthi Bhilwara Gopichand Meena Jahazpur Gopal Lal Sharma Mandalgarh Ashok Dogra Bundi Sandeep Sharma Kota South Pratap Singh Singhvi Chhabra Kalulal Dag Vasundhara Raje Jhalrapatan Narendra Nagar Khanpur and Govind Ranipuria Manohar ThanaIncumbent MLAs Subhash Poonia Surajgarh Ashok Lahoti Sanganer Mohan Ram Chaudhary Nagaur Roopa Ram Makrana Suryakanta Vyas Soorsagar Harendra Ninama Ghatol Chandrabhan Singh Akya Chittorgarh and Lalit Kumar Ostwal Bari Sadri were not given ticketsAlso Dholpur MLA Shobharani Kushwah who was expelled from the party for crossvoting in the Rajya Sabha polls last year was not given a ticketSoorsagar MLA Suryakanta Vyas 85 had praised Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot sometime ago for development work which had invited critical remarks from Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat who is the MP from JodhpurFrom Surajgarh the BJP has fielded former MP Santosh Ahlawat The 200member Rajasthan Assembly will go to polls on November 25 and the counting of votes will be taken up on December 3This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever