Congress releases list of 21 candidates for Rajasthan polls, name of Ashok Gehlot’s confidant missing

Congress has tasked Minister of State Shanti Dhariwal from Kota North seat.

Congress list for Rajasthan polls: The much-awaited seventh list of Congress candidates for the 2023 Rajasthan Assembly elections was released by the party on Sunday. The seventh list contains the names of 21 candidates for the Rajasthan Assembly elections to be held on November 25 to elect a new 200-seat Assembly. While the elections will take place on November 25, the results will be announced on December 3. Interestingly, Congress has fielded state minister Shanti Dhariwal from Kota North seat.

It has also denied a ticket to Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation chairman Dharmendra Rathore, who is reportedly a close confidant of incumbent Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.

According to insiders, Rathore was seeking a ticket from the Ajmer North constituency, but the Congress fielded Mahendra Singh Ralawata from the same seat.

It may be recalled that both Shanti Dhariwal and Dharmendra Rathore were among the three senior state leaders against whom the party’s disciplinary committee issued notices after they failed to attend a Congress Legislature Party meeting in the state and a parallel meeting of MLAs had kept. instead of last year.

Third leader Mahesh Joshi, who has been issued a notice by the party’s disciplinary committee, has already been barred from contesting the Assembly elections and RR Tiwari has been fielded from the Hawa Mahal seat in his place.

In the 2018 Rajasthan elections, Congress emerged victorious by winning 99 seats in the 200-member Rajasthan Assembly. Together with their ally Rashtriya Lok Dal, who won one seat, they claimed to form the government. The BJP managed to win only 73 seats.