Congress denied the ticket to Minister Mahesh Joshi from Hawa Mahal and has instead fielded R R Tiwari.
The Congress on Saturday released its sixth list for the upcoming Rajasthan assembly elections, unveiling 22 candidates, including Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) member Abhimanyu Poonia from Sangaria and PCC Secretary Prashant Sharma from Amber.
Congress denied the ticket to Public Health Engineering Department Minister Mahesh Joshi from Jaipur’s Hawa Mahal and has instead fielded R R Tiwari.
Joshi, along with two other individuals, received show-cause notices in September last year for failing to comply with the directives of the party’s high command. Joshi, Shanti Dhariwal, the Minister of Urban Development and Housing, and Dharmendra Rathore, the Chairman of Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation (RTDC), were issued show-cause notices for their actions contradicting the party’s instructions in 2022.
The party left the Bharatpur seat for Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD).
So far, the Congress has declared a total of 178 candidates out of 200 seats for the November 25 polls in Rajasthan, where the party aims to defy the trend of incumbent governments being voted out.