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Ramcharan Bohra wins in Jaipur for BJP, one of the Lok Sabha Constituencies that went to vote in Lok Sabha Election 2019.
Updated : May 24, 2019, 12:33 PM IST
Result Update: BJP's Ramcharan Bohra secured a convincing victory by 430626 votes against Congress' Jyoti Khandelwal.
Jaipur is one of the Lok Sabha Constituencies that went to vote in Lok Sabha Election 2019.
Constituency Profile
It consists of the following assembly segments – Hawa Mahal, Vidhyadhar Nagar, Civil Lines, Kishan Pole, Adarsh Nagar, Malviya Nagar, Sanganer and Bagru.
The main battle is between BJP and Congress. BJP’s Ram Charan Bohra will take on INC’s Jyoti Khandelwal.
SL. NO. |
Candidate Name |
Party Name |
1 |
Umrao Salodia |
Bahujan Samaj Party |
2 |
Jyoti Khandelwal |
Indian National Congress |
3 |
Ram Charan Bohra |
Bharatiya Janata Party |
4 |
Kuldeep Singh |
SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST) |
5 |
Kailash Chand Jagarwal |
Ambedkarite Party of India |
6 |
Bhanwar Lal Joshi |
Rashtriya Jansambhavna Party |
7 |
Ram Sahay Meena Kalky |
Peoples Party of India (Democratic) |
8 |
Sanjay Garg |
Swarna Bharat Party |
9 |
P. Trilok Tiwari |
Rashtriya Samta Vikas Party |
10 |
Kamal Bhargav |
Independent |
11 |
Pankaj Patel |
Independent |
12 |
Prashant Saini |
Independent |
13 |
Babita Wadhwani |
Independent |
14 |
Manoj Kumar Joshi |
Independent |
15 |
Yakub Khan |
Independent |
16 |
Yogesh Sharma |
Independent |
17 |
Ram Charan Joshi |
Independent |
18 |
Ram Janki Swami |
Independent |
19 |
Ramlal Dhanaka |
Independent |
20 |
Vinay Kumar Varma |
Independent |
21 |
Virad Singla |
Independent |
22 |
Sharad Chand Jain |
Independent |
23 |
Shobhal Singh |
Independent |
24 |
Haripal Bairwa |
Independent |
In 2014 Lok Sabha Election, Ramcharan Bohra of BJP on by margin of 5.39 lakh votes and defeated Dr Mahesh Joshi of the INC.
In 2009, Dr Mahesh Joshi of the INC had beaten BJP’s Ghanshyam Tiwari by 16,000 votes.
Battle for Rajasthan
Polling will take place in Ganganagar, Bikaner, Churu, Jhunjhunu, Sikar, Jaipur rural, Jaipur, Alwar, Bharatpur, Karauli-Dholpur, Dausa and Nagaur Lok Sabha constituencies on May 6, the fifth phase of voting nationwide.
Union ministers Rajyavardhan Rathore (Jaipur rural) and Arjun Ram Meghwal (Bikaner), Congress MLA and Olympian Krishna Poonia (Jaipur rural), Bhanwar Jitendra Singh (Alwar) are some of the contestants in this last phase of polling in the state.
As many as 134 candidates, including 12 from the Congress and 11 from the Bharatiya Janata Party, are in the fray. Just 16 candidates are women.
Polling was held on April 29 in the state's other 13 constituencies.
There are 2.30 crore registered voters in these 12 constituencies where 23, 783 polling stations have been set up.
Jaipur rural seat is witnessing a contest between Olympians Rathore, who sought votes in Modi's name, and Poonia who seems to enjoy the support of the Jat community.
Union Minister and a former IAS official Arjun Ram Meghwal is contesting against former IPS officer and Congress candidate Madangopal Meghwal.The two also happen to be cousins.
In Nagaur, Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) founder and former BJP leader Hanuman Beniwal is now fighting as his old party's ally from Nagaur against former MP and Congress candidate Jyoti Mirdha.
Two Hindu 'sants', Sumedhanand Saraswati and Baba Balaknath, are trying their luck from Sikar and Alwar respectively, contesting on BJP tickets. Sumedhanand is the sitting MP from Sikar.
In Dausa, both the BJP and Congress candidates are women. BJP has fielded former MP Jaskaru Meena against Congress nominee Savita Meena, the wife of party MLA Murari Meena.
All 25 Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan went to the BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The Congress, however, seemed to catch up lost ground by winning the assembly polls last year.
In the latest phase of campaigning, the BJP continued with its focus on the surgical strike and the air strike against Pakistan-based terrorists, while also highlighting the UN designation of Masood Azhar as a global terrorist.
The Congress seemed to bank on `Nyay', the income support promise under which the poorest 20 per cent families will get Rs 6,000 a month if the party comes to power.