Jaipur: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Thursday announced its first list of three candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Rajasthan. The announcement was made by BSP state president Bhagwan Singh Baba through a press statement issued by him. Ritesh Sharma, former chairman of the Dholpur municipal council and ex-Congress leader, has been declared the candidate from Dholpur assembly constituency. Khurshid Ahmed is the candidate from Nagar (Bharatpur) constituency and Khaim Karan Touli is the candidate from Nadbai (Bharatpur) assembly constituency. All three have also been made the in-charges of the assembly constituencies.
Sharma is the nephew of veteran Congress leader and former MLA Banwari Lal Sharma and son of Murari Lal Sharma, former chairman of Dholpur municipality. In 2010, leaving the Congress, Sharma contested the election to the post of the chairman on a BJP ticket and won. Later, before the assembly elections in 2018, he left the BJP and returned to Congress. Sharma joined the BSP in June this year.
BSP supremo Mayawati on Tuesday said that her party will take a call on post-poll alliances or joining coalitions in the four states that go to polls this year—Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana— after consultations.
