New Delhi: A former Congress leader has spiced up the bypoll in Rajasthan’s Anta Assembly constituency, where the ruling BJP is seeking to retain the seat that fell vacant after its MLA was disqualified and the Congress candidate, a former Minister who lost the 2023 polls, is trying his luck again.

It has also brought warring factional leaders like Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma and his predecessor Vasundhare Raje, who was relegated to the margins of the BJP leadership, on a joint platform. Ashok Gehlot, Govind Dotasra and Sachin Pilot too have hit the campaign trail for the Congress candidate.

The BJP is confident that it will romp home comfortably, citing its improved performance in the bypolls in November last year after a blip in the Lok Sabha election. In the bypolls, the BJP wrest

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