JAIPUR: Days after an issue erupted over the candidature of Congress‘s Sunil Sharma from the Jaipur Lok Sabha seat, the get together on Sunday changed him with former minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas because the get together’s new nominee from Jaipur.
Sharma’s candidature, regardless of his reported affiliation with ‘The Jaipur Dialogues’, a platform for “right-thinking folks” that regularly indulged in criticising the Congress first household, had triggered shock and sharp reactions from inside the get together, together with from former Union minister Shashi Tharoor.
Quoting Sharma’s tweet the place he had referred to as Tharoor “Rahul Gandhi with a thesaurus he stole from a library on his means out!”, Tharoor had made his shock over Sharma’s candidature public. “He will need to have undergone some kind of Pauline epiphany on the street to 24 Akbar! This is only one of a number of dozen tweets from his deal with attacking me,” Tharoor stated on social media.
Although Sharma denied being related to the controversial platform or its anti-Congress content material, his candidature additionally noticed a backlash from Congress staff and supporters, who demanded that the get together ought to rethink its determination to subject him from Jaipur.
Sharma’s alternative, Pratap Singh Khachariyawas, a distinguished chief of the Congress and former minister within the Ashok Gehlot govt was pressed into service despite the fact that it was broadly believed that Khachariyawas was not eager to contest. He had misplaced the 2023 meeting polls to debutant BJP candidate Gopal Sharma.
On Sunday, Congress additionally nominated Murari Lal Meena, a Sachin Pilot loyalist and the get together’s sitting Dausa legislator, to contest from the Dausa Lok Sabha seat. In 2003, Meena contested from Bandikui on a BSP ticket and gained the polls. He later joined the Congress and shifted to Dausa, from the place he had gained the meeting polls twice.



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