BJP announces fifth list of 15 candidates for Rajasthan Assembly Elections

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has revealed a list of 15 candidates for the upcoming Rajasthan assembly elections on November 25. The list includes several fresh faces. In a strategic move, the party has chosen to replace sitting MLA Dharmnarayan Joshi from Mawli (Udaipur) with K G Paliwal.

Among the new candidates, Gopal Sharma will contest from Civil Lines and Ravi Nayyar from Adarsh Nagar. In the third list released on November 2, the name of Poonam Kanwar Bhati, daughter-in-law of former minister Devi Singh Bhati, was announced. However, in the latest list, Poonam Kanwar Bhati has been replaced by her son Anshuman Singh Bhati for the Kolayat seat.

Other notable candidates include Amit Chaudhary from Hanumangarh, Chandramohan Batvada from Kishanpole, Vijay Bansal from Bharatpur, and former MLAs Rajkumar Rinwa from Sardarshahar, Prahlad Gunjal from Kota North, and Babu Singh Rathore from Shergarh. The party has also announced candidates for Shahpura, Rajakhera, Masuda, Pipalda, and Baran-Atru seats.


With the release of this fifth list, the BJP has now declared candidates for 198 out of the 200 seats in the state. The deadline for filing nominations is November 6.

(Inputs from PTI)