Congress’s technique to subject veterans to spice up the social gathering’s possibilities within the Lok Sabha elections seems to be coming a cropper in Rajasthan. Whereas seniors like Digvijaya Singh and Bhupesh Baghel have entered the fray in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, respectively, heavyweights in Rajasthan seem unwilling to enter the battleground.Ignoring clamour from grassroots, former chief minister Ashok Gehlot, his then deputy Sachin Pilot, and former Union ministers Jitendra Singh and CP Joshi, have managed to remain off the nomination record, leaving Congress with no possibility however to put its bets on comparatively lesser-known faces, and even debutants.On Gehlot’s residence turf of Jodhpur, for example, Congress has fielded the light-weight Karan Singh Uchiyarda, regardless of social gathering cadre sustaining that the previous CM can pose a more durable problem to BJP’s Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. Gehlot would have had an edge within the Jodhpur battle as he has been constantly concentrating on the Union minister over corruption points within the final two years. Gehlot’s son Vaibhav, who was defeated by Shekhawat within the 2019 common elections from Jodhpur, has additionally moved to the neighbouring Jalore-Sirohi seat, leaving, what insiders say, a near-empty enjoying subject for the BJP chief.Sachin Pilot’s areas of affect within the Gurjar belts of Dausa and Tonk Sawai Madhopur face an identical deadlock. Rajasthan’s former deputy chief minister and incumbent legislator within the state meeting, Pilot has resisted contesting from both constituency although he’s believed to be able to delivering outcomes for the grand outdated social gathering. As an alternative, in Dausa, Congress has fielded Murari Lal Meena, a former minister, and in Tonk-Sawai Madhopur, former Rajasthan DGP and sitting MLA from Deoli-Uniara Harish Chandra Meena.Alwar royal Bhanwar Jitendra Singh too has exited the battlefield, forcing Congress to subject Lalit Yadav, the social gathering’s sitting MLA from Mundawar, towards Union minister Bhupender Yadav, who’s contesting his first Lok Sabha elections.Former Union minister CP Joshi is the lone exception to the “veterans- won’t-contest” rule as he entered the ballot fray from Bhilwara in a last-minute shuffle. The social gathering’s preliminary choose for Bhilwara retired RPS officer Damodar Gurjar was moved to the neighbouring Rajsamand Lok Sabha seat after the unique choose Sudarshan Rawat withdrew from the race.Sources stated that Congress seniors have resisted contesting on the grounds that they’ve bigger organisational tasks inside and out of doors the state, and their work can be affected in the event that they have been to give attention to one seat.At Congress’s central election committee for Rajasthan in New Delhi final month, the place each Gehlot and Pilot have been particular invitees, the previous CM was conspicuous by his absence. Sources stated that regardless of his absence, the committee mentioned the necessity for his candidature however ended solely fielding his son Vaibhav — as insisted on by Gehlot — from Jalore as a substitute of Jodhpur.Pilot, then again, seems to have bowed out of the electoral race on account of his tasks as common secretary in-charge of Chhattisgarh. Sources stated he has assured the Congress management that as a substitute of contesting polls himself, he’ll channel his energies in direction of consolidating the social gathering’s place in 4 seats in east Rajasthan, moreover bettering the tally in Chhattisgarh.If the absence of seniors was not sufficient, Congress has additionally had embarrassment heaped at its ft on account of fielding newbies with out satisfactory background checks. In Jaipur, Congress was compelled to drop Sunil Sharma after inside protests erupted over his affiliation with ‘The Jaipur Dialogues’, a rightwing platform that routinely engaged in ‘Gandhi-bashing’.Rawat’s Rajsamand candidature announcement too grew to become a explanation for misery for the social gathering as he withdrew the nomination saying that he had already conveyed his incapability to contest the polls only some months after he confronted defeat within the 2023 meeting polls. So as to add insult to damage, in a public assertion, Rawat stated his title was introduced “without his consent” and could also be as a consequence of some “confusion”.Unable to search out robust candidates, Congress has additionally been liberal in accommodating INDIA Bloc companions that the social gathering had stored at a distance throughout final yr’s meeting polls. Whereas central Rajasthan’s Nagaur seat has been given to Hanuman Beniwal’s RLP, however resistance from native leaders, the Sikar seat, from the place Rajasthan Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra hails, has been handed over to CPM’s Amra Ram, as part of the seat-sharing association. In Banswara-Dungarpur additionally, Congress has entered into an alliance with the Bharat Adivasi Get together (BAP).
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