Rajasthan elections: Jija-saali, husband-wife and other interesting contests
BJP and the Congress. While this ensures that either party doesn't have a significant number of loyal voters, it also means leaders too keep shifting from one party to another.
This dynamic has also led to some interesting contests in the upcoming assembly elections in Rajasthan where members of the same family are pitted against each other. This trend can be attributed to a large extent to the significant lack of party loyalty among voters which encourages leaders to jump ship.
A family member who has been rejected in favour of another is not reluctant to seek nomination from the other party despite the family being traditionally aligned with the other party.
From jija-saali to husband-wife to uncle-niece to colleagues, below are some of the interesting fights in the Rajasthan elections:
Dholpur
In the Dholpur assembly constituency, the contest between two members of the same family has become all the more interesting by the fact that both the leaders have switched parties.
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Shobharani Kushwah had won the seat in 2018 as a BJP candidate by defeating Congress's Dr Shivcharan Kushwah. Shobharani, the sister-in-law (saali) of Shivcharan (Shobharani's elder sister is married to Shivcharan), was expelled in June last year by the BJP over cross-voting in Rajya Sabha elections. This time, Congress has offered its ticket to Shobharani while the BJP has
