2019 Rajasthan Lok Sabha Elections - BJP announces candidates for 16 out of 25 constituencies,most of the sitting MP's and Union Ministers contesting again Thursday March 21,2019

 

 

In Rajasthan BJP has announced candidates for 16 seats out of a total 25 and has not tinkered much with the formula that worked in 2014, and repeated most of the sitting parliamentarians and union ministers from their incumbent seats

Union minister of state in the ministry of water resources, river development & Ganga rejuvenation and parliamentary affairs Arjun Meghwal will contest from Bikaner again. The former chief whip for the BJP in the 16th Lok Sabha, Meghwal, has been elected as an MP from Bikaner for two terms running.

Minister of State (Independent charge) for ministry of youth affairs and sports, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, has been fielded from Jaipur Rural again and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, minister of state for agriculture and farmers welfare, is seeking re-election from Jodhpur seat, a region considered to be a stronghold for Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot.

Former CM Vasundhara Raje's son Dushyant Singh is looking for a third term as an MP from Jhalawar-Baran constituency and PP Chaudhary, union minister of state for the law and justice and the ministry of corporate affairs, is contesting from Pali seat again.

A few notable omissions are incumbent MP Santosh Ahlawat from Jhunjhunu, who has been replaced by Narendra Khichar, who is an MLA from Mandawa assembly constituency in Jhunjhunu region.

BJP has also fielded a new candidate in Bhagirath Chaudhary, former MLA from Kishangarh, from the important Ajmer constituency, which the party lost to Congress' Raghu Sharma in bypolls last year.