Rajasthan Polls: BJP Releases Fifth List, Head Of Unemployment Association Upen Yadav Gets Ticket

The BJP has released its fifth list for the ensuing Rajasthan Assembly Elections and has given a ticket to the president of Unemployment Association, Upen Yadav.

The BJP has released its fifth list for the ensuing Rajasthan Assembly Elections and has given a ticket to the president of Unemployment Association, Upen Yadav.

Source : PTI

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its fifth list of 15 candidates for the ensuing General Elections to the Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan, accouncing candidates for 198 out of 200 seats in the state. The party has fielded Unemployment Association President Upen Yadav from the Shahpura seat.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) releases a list of 15 candidates for the ensuing General Elections to the Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan. pic.twitter.com/Vh8MXhmB73

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Locked in a bitter poll battle with the ruling Congress in the state and eyeing a comeback, the BJP has dropped sitting MLA from Mawli (Udaipur) Dharmnarayan Joshi and fielded KG Paliwal from the seat instead.

The party has also fielded some new faces such as Gopal Sharma from Civil Lines and Ravi Nayyar from Adarsh Nagar.

Earlier in the third list, the saffron party had announced the name of Poonam Kanwar Bhati, the daughter-in-law of former minister Devi Singh Bhati, but replaced her with her son Anshuman Singh Bhati in the Kolayat seat.

The party gave tickets to Amit Chaudhary from Hanumangarh, Chandramohan Batvada from Kishanpole, Vijay Bansal from Bharatpur, former MLAs Rajkumar Rinwa from Sardarshahar, Prahlad Gunjal from Kota North and Babu Singh Rathore from Shergarh.

Meanwhile, Union Minister Anurag Thakur has attacked the Congress ahead of the assembly elections in the five states and said the guarantees made by the Congress in Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Karnataka have failed just like its leader Rahul Gandhi.

The 200-member Rajasthan Assembly will go for polls on on November 25 and the results will be declared on December 3. 

The ruling Congress party in the state, led by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, is trying to bend the 'revolving door' trend in Rajasthan as the voters tend to elect alternative governments and is tying to retain power in the state, the BJP has gone all out attacking the Congress government on corruption charges, and law and other situation to grab power.