Summary:
She wanted to contest the last assembly election from a Jaipur seat, but the Congress denied her the ticket. In the nine parliamentary elections held from 1984 to 2014, the seat has always elected a Brahmin candidate, be it of Congress or of BJP. Between 1989 and 2014, BJP’s Girdhari Lal Bhargava won the seat six times in a row.Congress’ Brahmin candidate, Mahesh Joshi, last won it in 2009. Jaipur: After a gap of 48 years, the Jaipur Lok Sabha seat will have a woman candidate from a national party contesting the general elections.The last time a woman candidate contested and won from here was Gayatri Devi, the erstwhile queen of Jaipur, in the 1971 general elections. In 1977 and 1980, Satish Agarwal won from here, once on the ticket of Bharatiya Lok Dal and once as Janata Party candidate..