Jaipur: It’s a clash of two women from the same community in Rajasthan’s Dausa constituency, reserved for Scheduled Tribes. While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee is former Union Minister Jaskaur Meena, the Congress has named Savita Meena, wife of sitting MLA Murari Meena, as candidate.
The BJP chose Jaskaur Meena amid major slugfest over candidates of two rival factions. Jaskaur Meena heads the party’s Scheduled Tribes (ST) wing and has been an MP from the Sawai Madhopur constituency in 1999. She even served as the Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development in 2003.
She is banking on BJP’s emphasis on nationalism, women empowerment and the Modi factor in the elections. On the other hand, Savita Meena of the Congress says: “The trust of my workers in me is my strength. My win will bring in development in education, roads, electricity, water and health in the constituency.”