Congress candidate Ram Chandra Choudhary throughout campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls in Ajmer.
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Veteran Congress leader Ram Chandra Choudhary, who has been heading the Ajmer District Milk Producers’ Cooperative Union since 1990, enjoys a direct join with the agricultural voters because the celebration candidate in Rajasthan’s Ajmer Lok Sabha constituency. Mr. Choudhary, 78, faces a problem from the Bharatiya Janata Party whereas attempting to achieve out to the voters in the city areas.
BJP candidate and sitting MP Bhagirath Choudhary appears to be assured after the celebration’s victory in seven of the eight Assembly segments in the Lok Sabha seat in the 2023 State elections, when the BJP fashioned the federal government in Rajasthan. The winners embody Assembly Speaker Vasudev Devnani, who was elected from Ajmer North.
Wooing Gujjars, Dalits
Both the candidates, belonging to the Jat neighborhood, try to draw the voters from Gujjar and Dalit castes, because the Jat votes are set to separate between the 2. The Opposition Congress expects that Mr. Ram Chandra’s reputation among the many farmers and cattle rearers, for whom he has labored for 3 a long time, would carry electoral dividends to the celebration.
Since 1998, the Ajmer Lok Sabha seat has witnessed a pendulum-like shift between the Congress and the BJP. The longest tenure was that of BJP’s Rasa Singh Rawat, who was elected for 5 instances from the seat since 1989. Mr. Bhagirath was preceded by Congress’s Raghu Sharma, who was elected in the by-election in 2018.
Political observers right here level out that for the reason that constituency has alternated between the Congress and BJP over the past three a long time, no celebration can declare the Lok Sabha seat to be its stronghold. This has compelled each the candidates to work on the native caste dynamics and enchantment for votes with guarantees made to completely different sections of society.
While Gujjar voters could make a distinction in Pushkar, Nasirabad and Kekri Assembly segments, Jats are current in all of the constituencies besides Ajmer North and Ajmer South. The presence of the historic 13th century dargah of Sufi mystic Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in town, which attracts pilgrims from everywhere in the nation, additionally underlines the importance of Muslim voters in the Lok Sabha election.
Clean picture: Congress
Ajmer District Congress Committee president Vijay Jain advised The Hindu that Mr. Ram Chandra, working in the dairy sector for lengthy, has the benefit of political assist by way of as many as 2,000 milk cubicles. “Mr. Ram Chandra has also earlier headed the rural segment of the district unit of Congress. He has a clean image without blemish in the public life, which will give advantage to Congress,” Mr. Jain stated.
Mr. Ram Chandra has additionally promised to carry an Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management to Ajmer after the institution of the Central University of Rajasthan close to Kishangarh. Congress supporters in locations comparable to Kekri, Masuda and Nasirabad affirm that the children would forged their poll in favour of the celebration due to the street map given for academic and employment alternatives.
On the opposite hand, Mr. Bhagirath has promoted the BJP’s ensures and guarantees made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi among the many voters. Refuting the cost that he was inaccessible over the past 5 years, Mr. Bhagirath stated at a latest public assembly that the BJP’s focus was about getting public works carried out slightly than displaying the face in public. He additionally affirmed that the “double engine government” in the State would carry prosperity to farmers.
The voters in the constituency have demanded options to the problems comparable to paucity of consuming water, absence of industries, poor street connectivity and absence of sewage system in the villages. Anant Gupta, a BJP employee in town, stated the folks in a number of areas, who have been getting water provide as soon as in three days, can be keen to vote for the celebration provided that they have been satisfied by the its guarantees.