Sardarshahar bypoll: BJP fields former MLA Ashok Kumar Pincha
The bypoll for the seat, which got vacant after the death of seven-time MLA from the constituency Bhanwarlal Sharma on October 9, is scheduled to take place on December 5.
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Ashok Kumar Pincha (middle). (Photo: Facebook@Ashok Pincha) The BJP on Tuesday announced former MLA Ashok Kumar Pincha as its candidate for the December 5 by-election to the Sardarshahar Assembly constituency in Rajasthan’s Churu district.
The by-election was necessitated following the death of sitting MLA Bhanwarlal Sharma on October 9.
Pincha is a former MLA from the seat and had contested the 2018 elections from Sardarshahar but lost by a margin of over 16,000 votes to Sharma, a seven-time MLA from the constituency.
“Pincha will file his nomination papers tomorrow (Wednesday). There will be a party meeting before he files his nomination,” said Dharamveer Pujari, Churu district president of the BJP on Tuesday.
Of the 2.89 lakh voters in Sardarshahar, Brahmins, Jats, and scheduled caste communities form a large chunk, with more than 50,000 voters each. Sharma, a Brahmin, was with the Janata Dal, BJP and finally Congress.
Pincha is from the trading community and was an MLA from Sardarshahar between 2008 and 2013 after defeating Sharma.
Sources said that the Congress is certain of fielding Sharma’s son Anil from Sardarshahar.
With just a year left for the 2023 Assembly elections, the by-election holds significance in the state, which has seen the incumbent government being voted out every five years since 1998. In the 200-member Assembly, ruling Congress has 107 MLAs and the Opposition BJP 71.
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