Rajasthan BJP fifth list: The Rajasthan BJP on Sunday released its sixth list of candidates with 15 names for the upcoming Rajasthan Assembly elections. The list includes some fresh faces. With the fifth list, the party has so far announced candidates for 198 out of 200 seats in the state.
Notably, tomorrow is the last date for filing nominations.
The party has dropped sitting MLA from Mawli (Udaipur) Dharmnarayan Joshi and fielded K G Paliwal instead.
Among the new faces fielded by the party are Gopal Sharma from Civil Lines and Ravi Nayyar from Adarsh Nagar.
The party had announced the name of Poonam Kanwar Bhati, the daughter-in-law of former minister Devi Singh Bhati, in the third list issued on November 2. However, in the fifth list, Poonam Kanwar Bhati was replaced by her son Anshuman Singh Bhati in the Kolayat seat.
Amit Chaudhary has been fielded from Hanumangarh, Chandramohan Batvada is from Kishanpole, Vijay Bansal from Bharatpur, former MLAs Rajkumar Rinwa from Sardarshahar, Prahlad Gunjal from Kota North and Babu Singh Rathore from Shergarh.
Rajasthan votes on November 25 and counting of votes will be on December 3.