Exhibition on development focuses only on Raje

JAIPUR: The BJP's exhibition meant to highlight its achievements turned out to be an event exhibiting pictures of chief minister Vasundhara Raje at Ramlila Maidan on Monday.
Out of the 164 images, 74 prominently featured Raje, while 79 images had illustrations, graphics on commoners. Only 11 images had political leaders, ministers, bureaucrats and commoners without Raje.

Prominent leaders like Vasudev Devnani, Kiran Maheshwari & Anita Bhadel were missing from the displays related to their departments.

Second most visible face was of governor Kalyan Singh who featured eight times. Third spot was shared by prime minister Narendra Modi and state home minister Gulab Chand Kataria - both featuring seven times each in the exhibition gallery.

Prepared by the state government, the exhibition intended to give citizens an idea about the development works carried out by the BJP government in the last four years.

As the state legislative polls are slated next year, it was a last official chance for the Raje-led government to exhibit the works for public.

Images of Raje along with those of PM, governor and her cabinet colleagues were put up at around 10 exhibits/displays. The images showed year-wise development works, flagship schemes like Annapurna, Bacho Ke Beech, Global Agri-meet,Swachhta Ka Sankalp, Yoga etc.

Jaipur rural MP and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, who is also a minister of state for information and broadcasting, featured five times along with state agriculture minister Prabhulal Saini.

Raje's trusted aide PWD minister Yunus Khan and Rajendra Singh Rathore appeared only three times each.

State BJP chief Ashok Parnami featured four times.

"The message is clear that next elections will be fought under the leadership of Raje and she will be the chief ministerial candidate. The exhibition exhibited Raje's different roles - from spoon-feeding a women at an Annapurna truck to playing with children to charge of a global summit to standing next to prime minister Narendra Modi," said a senior BJP functionary who came with BJP activists at the venue.