Rajasthan: Opposition leader Gulab Chand Kataria puts BJP in a fix over Vallabhnagar nominee | Jaipur News

Opposition leader Gulab Chand Kataria

JAIPUR: The state unit of is finding it difficult to zero in on a candidate from the Vallabhnagar assembly constituency to take on the sympathy wave for former Congress MLA Gajendra Singh Shaktawat.
The saffron party surveyors have expressed that the best winning possibility is for Janta Sena chief and former BJP MLA Randhir Singh Bhinder.
Leader of Opposition Gulab Chand Kataria, however, is bitterly opposed to him to an extent that he had called the entry of Bhinder at the cost of his exit from the party. Also, he led the resolution from the BJP Udaipur unit to give tickets to any party worker, they will assure his/her victory.
The saffron party has been losing the seat for the past three terms to either Congress candidate Shaktawat (2008 and 2018) or Bhinder (2013) has made the contest for state unit a matter of prestige. In all three polls, Bhinder vertically divides his former party votes leading BJP to stood third in the poll race.
“The performance of Bhinder makes him the ultimate choice for the party if they stick to the principle of winnability in selecting candidates,” said a senior party leader. Bhinder’s party had extended support to BJP in the Lok Sabha polls to claim that the party candidate has one side victory from Vallabhnagar. “I quit the party over differences with some leaders. I still enjoy cordial relations with several leaders,” said Bhinder to TOI, while stating that he will contest the polls for sure.
Bhinder has called upon the former chief minister Vasundhara Raje at least thrice in the past six months has given rise to the speculation that the former has the backing of the latter for the party’s candidature. His open support to BJP has set the alarm bells for the state unit who has been landing complaints against Raje for running the organisation ‘parallel’.