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Joshi: Joshi Seen As Bjp Leader Who Can Fill Leadership Vacuum In Mewar Region | Jaipur News
JAIPUR: BJP’s newly nominated state president CP Joshi’s performance as a member of four major parliamentary committees made him stand out among the party’s next-generation MPs in Rajasthan, apart from the clout he has in the influential Brahmin community.
Joshi, 47, is also seen as the only BJP leader who can fill the leadership vacuum in Mewar region, which has 28 Assembly seats, after former minister Kiran Maheshwari’s death in 2021 and Gulab Chand Kataria’s elevation as the Governor of Assam earlier this month.
Rajya Sabha MP Ghanshyam Tiwari was once considered the tallest Brahmin leader in BJP, but he was side-lined due to differences with the former CM Vasundhara Raje. He was rewarded with a Rajya Sabha berth in 2022 but that did not placate the community. Demands for a Brahmin CM in the state raised at the Brahmin Mahapanchayat in Jaipur last week have left BJP worried, said sources.
Joshi’s elevation is seen as a symbolic move by the party to reach out its core voter group of Brahmins. The community felt neglected as none from it from Rajasthan was given a cabinet berth in the central government.
At the Brahmin Mahapanchayat, Joshi was among the main speakers along with Ghanshyam Tiwari, state cabinet minister Mahesh Joshi and former cabinet minister Raghu Sharma. The chief guest at the rally, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, reportedly came on Joshi’s insistence.
Joshi took a delegation of 250 people from his constituency of Chittorgarh to meet PM Narendra Modi in Delhi on March 21. While the incident passed off as a routine event, party sources said it was not. Modi asked the people whether they had watched Joshi’s speech on the motion of thanks in parliament.
Joshi, 47, is also seen as the only BJP leader who can fill the leadership vacuum in Mewar region, which has 28 Assembly seats, after former minister Kiran Maheshwari’s death in 2021 and Gulab Chand Kataria’s elevation as the Governor of Assam earlier this month.
Rajya Sabha MP Ghanshyam Tiwari was once considered the tallest Brahmin leader in BJP, but he was side-lined due to differences with the former CM Vasundhara Raje. He was rewarded with a Rajya Sabha berth in 2022 but that did not placate the community. Demands for a Brahmin CM in the state raised at the Brahmin Mahapanchayat in Jaipur last week have left BJP worried, said sources.
Joshi’s elevation is seen as a symbolic move by the party to reach out its core voter group of Brahmins. The community felt neglected as none from it from Rajasthan was given a cabinet berth in the central government.
At the Brahmin Mahapanchayat, Joshi was among the main speakers along with Ghanshyam Tiwari, state cabinet minister Mahesh Joshi and former cabinet minister Raghu Sharma. The chief guest at the rally, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, reportedly came on Joshi’s insistence.
Joshi took a delegation of 250 people from his constituency of Chittorgarh to meet PM Narendra Modi in Delhi on March 21. While the incident passed off as a routine event, party sources said it was not. Modi asked the people whether they had watched Joshi’s speech on the motion of thanks in parliament.
