New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party had denied giving Lok Sabha election ticket to Jaswant Singh from Barmer in Rajasthan which are scheduled for April 2014. It also had been reported that Jaswant Singh had given an ultimatum to BJP that he will contest as an independent candidate if he is not given the Barmer ticket.
In the latest list of candidates for Lok Sabha polls, BJP has decided to field Colonel Sonaram Choudhary from the Barmer constituency.
There were indications that Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje wanted Jat leader Colonel Sonaram, who quit Congress to join BJP, to be fielded from there.
Sources claimed that Jaswant Singh has spoken to National President of BJP Rajnath Singh, expressing his desire to contest his “last” election from Barmer, the candidate for which has not been announced yet.
A party leader said, “He has said that he is anguished that his name has not been announced yet.”
Singh’s son Manavendra is a BJP MLA from Rajasthan. Raje was not keen on Jaswant Singh as she believes Sonaram, who has won Lok Sabha elections from there a few times, will be a better candidate from the constituency while the senior BJP leader has not been very active in the state.
Party Spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman played down reports of Jaswant’s threat and said that party leaders have aspirations at the time of elections and there is nothing wrong about it.
Bureau Report
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