Rajasthan bypoll: Congress declares candidates, banks on relations of deceased MLAs

The Congress get together Saturday introduced the title of the three candidates for the Assembly by-elections to be held in Rajasthan subsequent month.
In two of the constituencies, which had been held by the Congress earlier than they fell vacant, the get together is banking on relations of its deceased MLAs whose deaths have necessitated the bypolls.
The Congress has fielded Manoj Kumar Meghwal, the son of Congress MLA late Master Bhanwarlal Meghwal, from the Sujangarh constituency in Churu district.
Meghwal, who was the Social Justice and Empowerment minister within the Rajasthan authorities earlier than he suffered a mind stroke which led to his loss of life in November final yr, was a seasoned politician and had received the seat within the 2018 Assembly elections by a margin of greater than 38,000 votes.
In the Sahara Assembly constituency of Bhilwara district, the Congress has fielded Gayatri Devi, the spouse of the late Kailash Chandra Trivedi, the sitting MLA from the seat who handed away in October final yr resulting from post-Covid-19 issues.
The Congress has fielded Tansukh Bohara, who is understood to be near Assembly Speaker CP Joshi, from the Rajsamand Assembly seat. Joshi himself is an MLA from the Nathdwara constituency, which can be within the Rajsamand district.
Rajsamand has historically been a BJP bastion and was held by senior BJP chief Kiran Maheshwari earlier than her loss of life in November final yr after she examined optimistic for Covid-19.
Bohara will contest the elections in opposition to Maheshwari’s daughter Deepti, who the BJP has named as its candidate for the seat. In the 2018 Assembly election, Maheshwari had defeated the Congress candidate by greater than 24,000 votes.

Sources within the Congress stated that the get together has banked on the relations of the deceased MLAs within the hope that the general public sympathy issue will work of their favour. The get together can be attempting laborious to wrest the Rajsamand seat from the BJP in absence of Maheshwari, who was the tallest chief of the get together from the realm.
The BJP has already fielded former MLAs Khemaram Meghwal and Ratanlal Jat from the Sujangarh and Sahara seat, respectively.
The voting for the by-elections within the three constituencies will happen on April 17 and the votes might be counted on May 2.