LS polls: Fate of three Rajasthan royals to be decided in people's court

Rajasthan's royals continue to try their luck at the hustings with three scions of the erstwhile royal families spicing up the Lok Sabha polls in the desert land.

This time, three members of the erstwhile royal families are testing their might in the people's court. Their fates will be decided in two phases of polling on April 29 and May 6.

Leading the group is Dushyant Singh, the three-time Lok Sabha member from Jhalawar Baran and a scion of the erstwhile Dholpur royal family.

Dushyant Singh, son of former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje who is the Maharani of Dholpur, is banking on his connect with the people for a fourth consecutive win from this constituency which he inherited from Raje in 2004.

His opponent is the Congress's Pramod Sharma who is presenting himself as a commoner.

Raje, a descendant of the Scindia royal family in Madhya Pradesh and married into the royal family of Dholpur, represented Jhalawar Baran in the Lok Sabha starting 1989 until 2004 when she ...