In a determined effort to beat back anti-incumbency and retain power in Rajasthan, the BJP has indicated that it will go to assembly polls with a distinctly new face by changing its candidates in as many as 140 of the 200 constituencies. The likely discards may be evenly split between the sitting MLAs and those who were fielded but failed to make it five years ago.
The party, which had hinted about its plan to axe a majority of its nominees in the last polls, went public with its desire with L K Advani declaring, while referring to the Gujarat model, that non-performing legislators would have to make way for fresh faces. Advani’s remarks at a Jaipur rally came a day before the party’s central election committee begins its deliberations in New Delhi to decide on the nominations for Rajasthan. Changing sitting legislators or those who have been around for sometime has always been a difficult decision. While the sitting MLAs accumulate huge amount of incumbency which gets transferred to the party, dropping them carries the risk of dissidence and sabotage.
The party, which had hinted about its plan to axe a majority of its nominees in the last polls, went public with its desire with L K Advani declaring, while referring to the Gujarat model, that non-performing legislators would have to make way for fresh faces. Advani’s remarks at a Jaipur rally came a day before the party’s central election committee begins its deliberations in New Delhi to decide on the nominations for Rajasthan. Changing sitting legislators or those who have been around for sometime has always been a difficult decision. While the sitting MLAs accumulate huge amount of incumbency which gets transferred to the party, dropping them carries the risk of dissidence and sabotage.
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