BJP Nominates Former Bayana MP Ramswaroop Koli For Bharatpur Constituency (Photo on Facebook Ramswaroop Koli)

Elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 2004, the former BJP MP Ramswaroop Koli has been nominated for Rajasthan”s Bharatpur Lok Sabha seat when the saffron party announced its first list of candidates. After 2004, Mr Koli was given a chance to contest the Rajasthan assembly elections from the Vair constituency. However, the BJP leader faced defeat against the Congress’s Bhajanlal.

Born in 1965 in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan, Mr Koli has been actively working for RSS for years and the party after the defeat of the assembly election in 2018 has once again trusted him for the Lok Sabha election.

The constituency has seen no candidates being fielded consecutively by the BJP in its recent history. In 2014, the BJP fielded Bahadur Singh Koli against the sitting Congress MP Ratan Singh and emerged victorious with more than two lakh majority. During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP picked Ranjeeta Koli and he won with more than three lakh majority. Mr Vishvendra Singh is the only BJP candidate in the constituency who represented the seat twice.

It is learnt that the association of Mr Ramswaroop Koli with the RSS for years persuaded his candidature in the constituency. Earlier in 2004, Mr Koli won the dissolved Bayana Lok Sabha constituency with a relative majority. Running a watch shop for a living, he was not actively involved in politics. In 1990, Mr Koli contested the councillor election from Bhusawal Municipality, becoming a three-term consecutive councillor.

Ramswaroop Koli has been the State Vice President of BJP SC Morcha as well as a Member of the Human Resource Development Committee and Member of Human Resource Development Committee. Notably, according to reports, Mr Koli has been asking for a ticket from the party