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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Assembly elections: Farm distress, jobs could unseat the BJP in Rajasthan -Rakesh Goswami and Urvashi Dev Rawal

Assembly elections: Farm distress, jobs could unseat the BJP in Rajasthan -Rakesh Goswami and Urvashi Dev Rawal

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published Published on Aug 3, 2018   modified Modified on Aug 3, 2018
-Hindustan Times

Unfulfilled promise of generating 1.5 million jobs, anger among castes that formed the traditional BJP vote base and rural distress will be major issues when Rajasthan goes to polls.

When chief minister Vasundhara Raje undertook her jan samwad (public dialogues) initiative across Rajasthan in January 2018, the idea was for her to step out of Jaipur to meet and talk to people across the state and dispel the impression that she was inaccessible. Some said that she had left it too late and had remained confined to her bastion for too long, cut off from party workers and even legislators.

Even her ministers and BJP MLAs come across as arrogant, said Hari Shankar Goyal, a political analyst based in Alwar. The Alwar BJP MLA Banwari Lal Singhal once told a group of locals who had gone to him with a demand for drinking water supply that he didn’t need their votes. “I won with 62,000 votes,” according to Goyal.

“I do remember that a corporator had come to my house and was accusing me of lying. There was a heated exchange but I don’t remember having said anything like that,” Banwari Lal Singhal said.

But Raje’s inaccessibility is just one of the government’s problems. The unfulfilled promise of generating 1.5 million jobs, anger among the castes that formed the traditional vote base of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP), rural distress leading to suicides by farmers, hitherto unheard of in Rajasthan, and the exclusion of people from social security schemes will be major issues when the state goes to the polls later this year.

Unemployment

In 2013, in the run-up to the assembly elections, Raje, then leader of Opposition, pledged good governance if voted to power. The Ashok Gehlot government of the Congress party was facing protests by young people seeking jobs in government schools. On July 3, 2013, more than 250 young people took out Gehlot’s symbolic death procession (as a mark of unique protest) from Nehru Garden to outside the assembly in Jaipur, leading to police beating them with lathis and arresting three of them.

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Hindustan Times, 1 August, 2018, https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/assembly-elections-farm-distress-jobs-could-unseat-the-bjp-in-rajasthan/story-Gj4j69eesYCzQPbTwNHVnM.html


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