RS polls: Congress should re-think decision to field candidates from outside Rajasthan, says Ashok Gehlot’s adviser

Miffed over his identify not figuring within the listing for the Rajya Sabha polls, Unbiased MLA from Rajasthan Sanyam Lodha, who can also be an adviser to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, on Monday stated the get together ought to re-reconsider its determination to area candidates to the Higher Home from exterior the state. The Congress had on Sunday introduced 10 candidates for the June 10 polls, of which three would symbolize Rajasthan, however the discontented leaders stated none of them hailed from the state.

“Within the Rajya Sabha elections, the Congress get together determined all three candidates from exterior Rajasthan. It’s the proper of the get together to determine the candidate, however there’s a deep disappointment among the many folks of Rajasthan as a result of no Congress chief and employee of Rajasthan has been nominated as a candidate,” Lodha stated in a video message.

“I request the Congress get together to rethink and supply a chance to any Congress chief or employee from Rajasthan to symbolize the state within the Rajya Sabha,” the previous Congress chief stated.

Lodha cautioned the Congress’ prime brass that the get together would undergo a “big blow” within the meeting elections subsequent 12 months if it did not accommodate leaders from Rajasthan within the Higher Home.

Shortly after the Congress introduced its 10 candidates on Sunday evening, Lodha had tweeted, “The Congress get together ought to clarify why no Congress chief/employee from Rajasthan is nominated for the Rajya Sabha elections,” with the hashtag ‘Congress Sankalp’.

A number of different Congress leaders, too, have expressed their discontent with the get together’s candidatures.

Elections to 4 Rajya Sabha seats from Rajasthan will probably be held on June 10 for which the Congress has fielded senior leaders Mukul Wasnik, Pramod Tiwari and Randeep Singh Surjewala whereas the BJP has named former minister Ghanshyam Tiwari.

The Congress had determined towards fielding Lodha within the 2018 meeting elections, following which he contested as an Unbiased candidate and received.

Rajasthan has 10 Rajya Sabha seats and presently, the BJP has seven and the Congress three. The grand outdated get together’s members are former prime minister Manmohan Singh, get together’s nationwide normal secretary KC Venugopal and Neeraj Dangi. Of those, solely Dangi is a resident of Rajasthan.

Elections to the 4 Rajya Sabha seats will probably be held on June 10 because the tenure of BJP’s Omprakash Mathur, KJ Alphons, Ramkumar Verma and Harshvardhan Singh Dungarpur ends on July 4.

The final day for nominations is Could 31. Scrutiny of nomination papers will probably be held on June 1 as per the schedule. Nominations may be withdrawn until June 3. Voting, if crucial, will probably be held on June 10.

At current, the Congress has 108 MLAs, the BJP 71, Unbiased 13, the Rashtriya Loktantrik Get together three, the CPI(M) and the Bharatiya Tribal Get together have two every within the 200-seat Rajasthan Meeting.