Cong fields former Speaker CP Joshi from Bhilwara LS seat
The second phase poll process is underway with filing of nomination papers for 13 seats going to polls on April 26.
The second phase poll process is underway with filing of nomination papers for 13 seats going to polls on April 26.
Eight sitting MPs, seven from the BJP and one from the RLP, are trying their luck in the assembly elections.
C P Joshi is the new Rajasthan State BJP president. He replaced Satish Poonia, who completed his over three years tenure on the post.
Congress leader KC Venugopal on Wednesday said that there is no drama in the state and everything will be clear in a day or two about who will be the next chief minister.
Congress leader Sachin Pilot has denied media reports stating that he told the party high command that Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
'All the six BSP MLAs were in constant touch with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and today they have come into the fold of the Congress,' a Congress leader said.
Mayawati’s party’s all six members of the Rajasthan Assembly wrote to the Speaker C P Joshi and requested him to merge the legislative party with the Congress.
Gandhi's remarks came after a video of Joshi surfaced in which he is heard saying that only pandits and Brahmins knew about Hinduism and were learned enough to speak about it.
Joshi outnumbered ex-RCA chairman Lalit Modi’s son Ruchir Modi by a margin of five votes.
