Jaipur:
The Bharatiya Janata Party has announced its list of star contenders for the Lok Sabha polls in Rajasthan. The 40-person list includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 10 federal ministers and chief ministers of five states.
Jhalawar MLA and former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and former MLAs Rajendra Rathore and Satish Puni Satish Poonia’s name also appears in the list.
Federal ministers who will contest from the desert state include Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Bhupendra Ya Bhupendra Yadav, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Kailash Choudhary .
Chief ministers of five states, including Rajasthan’s Bhajanlal Sharma, will also campaign in support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate.
Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh), Mohan Yadav Madhya Pradesh), Bhupendra Patel (Gujarat) and Nayab Saini (Haryana) are the other chief ministers who will campaign for the saffron party in the desert state.
Apart from Raj, BJP president CP Joshi, members of the federal assembly Ghanshyam Tiwari and Rajendra Gehlot, the party’s former state unit Chiefs Arun Chaturvedi and Satish Poonia and former leader of the opposition in the state assembly Rajendra Rathore are also saffron party stars candidates.
The names of Deputy Chief Ministers Diya Kumari and Premchand Bairwa, Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Agriculture Minister Kirodi Lal Meena also appeared in the list. Tijara MLA Baba Balaknath is the only BJP MP from Rajasthan whose name appears in the list of star campaigners.
Six Lok Sabha poll candidates from Rajasthan will be star campaigners for the BJP – Meghwal (Bikaner), Shekhawat (Jodhpur), Bhupendra Ya Dav (Alwar), Om Birla (Kotta), Chaudhary (Balmer) and Joshi (Chittorgarh).
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