New Delhi: Congress workers, miffed with ticket distribution for the upcoming assembly elections in Rajasthan, staged protest across the poll-bound state on Wednesday, news agency PTI reported. The party has announced the names of 156 candidates for its 200-member assembly.
Speaking on the dissatisfaction among the party workers over the selection of candidates, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said it is matural that everyone won’t be satisfied, and in a democracy, even the chief minister cannot take all the decisions without consulting with the other party leaders.
“It's natural that everyone can't be satisfied. Even if I am the CM, not all decisions can be taken just as I want. That is democracy. The kind of ups and downs that are happening in BJP, arson and vandalism have also taken place...This time the tickets were distributed with suggestions by everyone by and large. We will win the election. Common people want our government to come back to power because we have worked,” news agency ANI quoted CM Gehlot as saying.
Slamming the Congress over its “weak leadership”, BJP candidate from Jhotwara seat, Rajyavardhan Rathore, as quoted by ANI said, “Congress has a number of people who are no longer able to face the public. The Congress leadership does not have the power to give the ticket to the new people who have actually done some work. They are forced to give tickets to the anti-incumbent MLAs who looted the people... The people of Rajasthan have now decided to remove them.”
The grand old party announced the names of five candidates on Tuesday, hours after it released its fourth list of 56 candidates. Last week, the Congress had released its third list of 19 candidates for the assembly polls. The first list of candidates for Rajasthan had 43 candidates and the second had 33.
Rajasthan will go to polls on November 25 and the counting of votes will be taken up on December 3.