Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje will be the BJP’s chief ministerial candidate in the upcoming Assembly elections in the State, party president Amit Shah said on July 21.
The Assembly election will be contested under her leadership and she will again become the Chief Minister with a thumping majority, he said at the concluding session in Jaipur of the BJP’s State working committee meeting.
The party will once again form governments in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh also, Mr. Shah added. He asked party workers to remain dedicated and work hard to ensure that the BJP retains power in Rajasthan and also wins the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, according to a press statement.
Mr. Shah said the welfare schemes launched by the Raje government have been appreciated across the country and suggested that party workers should base the election campaign on them.
Ms. Raje exuded confidence that the party will get more seats this year than in the last Assembly elections, and will also win all the 25 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, the statement said. The working committee meeting began on July 20 and Mr. Shah addressed the concluding session.
Suman Sharma, chairperson of the State commission for women, told reporters that Mr. Shah gave a clear message that Ms. Raje will be the party’s chief ministerial face.
Addressing a separate meeting of the Rajasthan BJP’s social media cell, Mr. Shah said the party’s cyber warriors would set the agenda of the elections. He asked them to take the work done by the central and state governments among the masses through social media. During his meetings, Mr. Shah accused the Congress of playing “negative politics”.
