Ex-CM Vasundhara Raje missing from 2 BJP panels for Rajasthan polls | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: BJP on Thursday announced two committees for Rajasthan assembly elections in what was seen as an exercise to get the preparations started early for the polls scheduled in November-December. The conspicuous absence from the two committees – for campaign management and manifesto – was that of former chief minister Vasundhara Raje.

Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal will lead the manifesto committee while Narain Pancharia will helm the campaign management committee. However, the party is yet to announce the campaign committee, where leaders not included in the two lists are likely to find a place.
Asked about Raje’s non-inclusion in the poll panels, BJP’s state in-charge Arun Singh said she will campaign in the election. “She is the national vice-president of the party. She has a big role to play. She has been the chief minister of the state twice. She will campaign in the election. We all respect her,” he told reporters in Jaipur.

BJP’s state election in-charge and Union minister Pralhad Joshi said both state and central leaders of the party will campaign for the crucial polls. “Our strategy is ready. I have full confidence that people will give the mandate to BJP, and we will get a historic victory,” he said.
The election committees were formed by party president J P Nadda. The announcement was made by BJP’s state president C P Joshi and Arun Singh at the party office in Jaipur.
The 21-member election management committee will be headed by Pancharia and former state general secretary Onkar Singh Lakhawat, party’s national spokesperson and MP Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, state general secretaries Bhajan Lal and Damodar Agarwal, former IAS officer C M Meena and Kanhaiya Lal Bairwal will be co-convenors.
Meghwal will be convenor of the party’s ‘Pradesh Sankalp Patra (manifesto) Samiti’. Rajya Sabha members Ghanshyam Tiwari and Kirori Lal Meena, national secretary Alka Singh Gurjar, former assembly deputy speaker Rao Rajendra Singh, former Union minister Subhash Maharia, former state vice-president Prabhu Lal Saini and Rakhi Rathore have been made co-convenors in the 25-member manifesto committee.