Former Congress Leader, MP Jyoti Mirdha Gets Nominated By BJP From Nagaur Constituency (Photo on X Dr. Jyoti Mirdha 🇮🇳 ( मोदी का परिवार) @jyotimirdha)

The former Rajasthan Congress leader and MP from Nagaur seat Jyoti Mirdha who switched to the Bharatiya Janata Party has been given a ticket to contest from Naguar when the BJP announced its first candidate list earlier this month. She has been a Congress MP during the 2009-14 term. After she joined the saffron party in September 2023, there were reports regarding her potential nomination from the Naguar seat for the 2024 Lok Sabha election on BJP ticket.

Jyoti Mirdha had been contesting elections on the Congress ticket since 2009. While the BJP’s C. R. Chaudhary wrested power from her in 2014, the then NDA ally Rashtriya Loktantrik Party’s (RLP) Hanuman Beniwal secured the 2019 election, making the Mirdha second in the race.

The Constituency is currently with the RLP which walked out of the NDA alliance in 2020 over the controversial farm laws. Nagaur is dominated by the Jat community and the leaders of the community have always had an edge in the electoral history of the seat. The sitting MP Mr Beniwal hails from the Jat community.

Notably,  Jyoti Mirdha is also a member of the Jat community. With the arrival of the 51-year-old Mirdha to the BJP, it is analysed that the party got a popular figure with a rich political legacy. Mirdha has a strong political lineage as her late grandfather Nathuram Mirdha had served as the Rajasthan Congress chief and union minister in the past.

The BJP candidate was in the news for raising her voice against doctors being bribed by pharmaceutical companies with travel tickets and other grants. She had reportedly written to the then Prime Minister Manmohan singh seeking measures against the firms engaging in such practices. The practice was recently banned by the current government.