Kirori Singh Bainsla Joins BJP Today

  Preeti Sigh   4561   10 Apr, 2019 

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Kirori Singh Bainsla, who led the Gujjar agitation in Rajasthan, joined the BJP today days before the country goes to polls. The Gujjar leader and his son Vijay Bainsla were welcomed into the party by BJP chief Amit Shah and senior leader Prakash Javadekar in Delhi. "I have seen rarest of rare qualities in Prime Minister Narendra Modi and that's why I am joining the BJP," Kirori Singh Bainsla told news agency PTI. This is the second time Kirori Singh Bainsla is joining the BJP. In 2009 he had contested on a BJP ticket from Tonk-Sawai Madhopur constituency against Congress' Namo Narain Meena but had lost by a narrow margin. Since he lost the elections, Bainsla distanced himself from the BJP but maintained considerable clout on the local Gujjar community. Political analysts believe that Kirori Singh Bainsla can influence voters of his community in as many as 30 seats in Rajasthan. The community that makes up nine per cent of the population in the state and could impact the Lok Sabha seats, especially in east Rajasthan and in Bhilwara, Ajmer and Rajsamand. In the Assembly elections last year, the Congress benefited from the Gujjar votes, when the party pushed Sachin Pilot,belonging to the Gujjar community, at the forefront of their campaign. Sachin Pilot had managed to swing the Gujjar vote decisively towards the Congress, resulting in seven of their candidates winning. The BJP lost out on the crucial Gujjar vote bank with all of its nine lawmakers losing the elections in the December polls. After the February Gujjar agitation, Bainsla had said that he would go with any party that gives the community five per cent reservation in government jobs and educational institutions.

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