Girdhari lal bhargava,BJP MP, Rajasthan
“Our party contests only 24 Lok Sabha seats from Rajasthan. We do field a candidate for the 25th seat – Jaipur – but only as tokenism,” says Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Mumtaz Masih. It needs chutzpah for a Congress leader to say that about a BJP MP, but Girdhari Lal Bhargava has no enemy, nor political rivals. His first rival in
1989 was the erstwhile ruler of Jaipur estate, Col Bhawani Singh – and the two were, and are, great pals. “The 1989 election was unique, because both candidates would praise each other, often refusing to address public meetings if somebody raised slogans against the other,” says CL Gupta, a foundry owner and Bhargava’s neighbour since the past 54 years.
Winning six times on the trot is no mean achievement for any politician. But, 72-year-old Bhargava thinks nothing of that: “The entire city is like family. Don’t you take care of your family?” Sounds easy, but takes a lot of integrity! Jaipur denizens bear him out. Bhargava makes it a point to attend all city wedding receptions and more importantly, all funerals, often skipping Parliament sessions to meet such commitments. He has also endeared the Jaipur masses by personally taking the ashes of the demised from poor families from city crematoria to Hardwar to be immersed in River Ganga. “Now with old age, my frequency has reduced from one visit every month to one every two months,” laments Bhargava......Continue
“Our party contests only 24 Lok Sabha seats from Rajasthan. We do field a candidate for the 25th seat – Jaipur – but only as tokenism,” says Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Mumtaz Masih. It needs chutzpah for a Congress leader to say that about a BJP MP, but Girdhari Lal Bhargava has no enemy, nor political rivals. His first rival in
1989 was the erstwhile ruler of Jaipur estate, Col Bhawani Singh – and the two were, and are, great pals. “The 1989 election was unique, because both candidates would praise each other, often refusing to address public meetings if somebody raised slogans against the other,” says CL Gupta, a foundry owner and Bhargava’s neighbour since the past 54 years.Winning six times on the trot is no mean achievement for any politician. But, 72-year-old Bhargava thinks nothing of that: “The entire city is like family. Don’t you take care of your family?” Sounds easy, but takes a lot of integrity! Jaipur denizens bear him out. Bhargava makes it a point to attend all city wedding receptions and more importantly, all funerals, often skipping Parliament sessions to meet such commitments. He has also endeared the Jaipur masses by personally taking the ashes of the demised from poor families from city crematoria to Hardwar to be immersed in River Ganga. “Now with old age, my frequency has reduced from one visit every month to one every two months,” laments Bhargava......Continue
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