“IT IS shocking and I am surprised. I feel it is a way to defame and hurt the legacy of Bhairon Singh Shekhawatji,” says Narpat Singh Rajvi, the son-in-law of the former Vice-President of India and incumbent BJP MLA, whose name did not figure in the party’s first list announced on Monday, including the seat he has won the past three times.

Of the 41 seats for which nominations were declared, Rajvi’s Vidhyadhar Nagar was the only one that had a sitting BJP MLA. Still, he was dropped, with the BJP giving the ticket from the constituency to Diya Kumari, a sitting MP and a member of the Jaipur royal family.