Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, former star minister and the man who helped BJP get a clean sweep in Rajasthan, fails to bag a Cabinet position

• Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore wasn’t a part of the list of ministers who took oath during the swearing in ceremony held today.
• Rathore earlier held the position of Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting and Sports at the Centre.
• He has returned as the Lok Sabha MP from the Jaipur Rural constituency seat in Rajasthan.

In a surprising move by the Modi government, former star BJP Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was missing from the list of ministers who took oath at the swearing-in ceremony today.

Rathore, in the first term of the Modi government, held the position of Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting and Sports at the Centre.

Rathore was instrumental in BJP’s clean sweep in the state of Rajasthan.

With Rathore missing from the dais, as ministers took their seats to be sworn in along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he took oath for his second term in office, raised a lot of questions.

Contesting from the Jaipur rural constituency, Rathore, in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections defeated fellow Olympian and Congress candidate Krishna Poonia. The Olympian shooter and a retired Colonel from the army, had gained much respect in his constituency for having paved the way for development.

In the 2014 elections, Rathore had beat INC candidate had come to power by a margin of 3,32,896 votes.