Rajasthan: BJP Announces Two Key Election Committees, Vasundhara Raje Excluded from Both

GG News Bureau

Jaipur, 17th Aug. The BJP announced two major electoral committees for the Congress-run Rajasthan on Thursday, but former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje wasn’t named to any of them. Former MP Narayan Panchariya leads the 21-member election management committee.

Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal will lead the poll manifesto panel, called the Pradesh Sankalp Patra (manifesto) committee.

The party is set to form a third committee for the state, an election campaign committee, in the coming weeks, ahead of the year-end assembly elections.

When asked about Raje’s exclusion from the poll panels, BJP state in-charge Arun Singh stated she will campaign.

“She is the national vice president of the party. She has a big role to play. She has been the chief minister of the state twice. She will campaign in the election. We all respect her,” he told reporters. BJP’s state election in-charge and Union minister Pralhad Joshi said both state and central leaders of the party will campaign for the crucial polls. “Our strategy is ready. I have full confidence that people will give the mandate to the BJP, and we will get a historic victory,” he said.

J P Nadda, the party’s national president, formed the election committees.

Former MP Narayan Panchariya will lead the 21-member election management committee, while Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal will lead the Pradesh Sankalp Patra (manifesto) committee.

The statement was made at the party office here by BJP state president C P Joshi and Arun Singh.

Joshi said Union minister Meghwal will be the convenor of the party’s ‘Pradesh Sankalp Patra Samiti’.

Rajya Sabha members Ghanshyam Tiwari and Kirori Lal Meena, national secretary Alka Singh Gurjar, former Assembly deputy speaker Rao Rajendra Singh, former Union minister Subhash Maharia, former state vice president Prabhu Lal Saini and Rakhi Rathore have been made co-convenors in the 25-member manifesto committee.

In the election management committee headed by former MP Narayan Panchariya, former state general secretary Onkar Singh Lakhawat, party’s national spokesperson and MP Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, state general secretaries Bhajan Lal and Damodar Agarwal, former information commissioner C M Meena and Kanhaiya Lal Bairwal will be the co-convenors.