Jaipur: After a long wait, the Congress has released a list of 33 candidates who will contesting the assembly elections in Rajasthan. The Bharatiya Janata Party, meanwhile, has unveiled its second list of candidates, which includes 83 names. The BJP had released its first list of 41 candidates on October 9.The Congress list has clarified that Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot will be contesting from Sardarpura and Tonk, respectively. Earlier, there was speculation that both might change their constituencies and contest from different ones.The Congress has also given tickets to three candidates who lost in the 2018 elections: Archana Sharma from Malviya Nagar, Pushpendra Bharadwar from Sanganer, and Vivek Dhakad from Mandalgarh.Archana Sharma lost the Malviya Nagar seat by a margin of 1,704 votes to Kalicharan Saraf of the BJP, who received 70,221 votes. The BJP has again fielded the same candidate in the Malviya Nagar constituency.Dhakad lost to Gopal Lal Sharma from Mandalgarh by a margin of 10,333 votes. In its second list, the BJP has cleared Gopal Lal Sharma’s name for the Mandalgarh constituency.Pushpendra Bharadwar from Sanganer lost to the BJP’s Ashok Lahoty by a margin of 72,542 votes. This time, Bhajan Lal Sharma will contest from Sanganer on the BJP’s ticket.So far, the BJP has finalised 144 names out of the total 200 constituencies in Rajasthan, with 56 names yet to be announced. Recently, Rajendra Rathore, the leader of the opposition for the BJP in Rajasthan, told The Wire in an interview that the complete list of candidates will be released by the end of this week, and the party’s workers will be active on the ground. Rathore has also changed his constituency from Churu, where he won by a small margin of 1,850 votes against Congress’s Rafique Mandelia, to Taranagar.It’s worth noting that the Congress has given a ticket to sitting MLA Danish Abrar from Sawai Madhopur, while the BJP has not announced a candidate for the same constituency. In 2018, only one Muslim candidate, Yoonus Khan, received the BJP’s ticket in Rajasthan from the Tonk constituency, for which the BJP is yet to announce a candidate. Khan was the transport minister in Vasundhara Raje’s government, and sources suggest that he will contest the election if the party considers his name. Khan had lost to Pilot by a margin of 54,179 votes in 2018.There was speculation that Raje might contest from the Sardarpura constituency, which is the stronghold of the current chief minister, Ashok Gehlot. However, the list has clarified that Raje will be contesting from the Jhalrapatan seat, where she has a stronghold. Raje has been winning the Jhalrapatan seat since 2003.Narpat Singh Rajvi, who is considered to be one of Raje’s loyalists, is nominated in the second list from Chittorgarh. Earlier in the first list, Rajvi’s name was dropped from his Vidhayadhar Nagar seat, which has now been given to Rajsamand MP Diya Kumari. Rajvi is the son-in-law of former chief minister Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.The top leadership of the BJP appears chastised by protests breaking out over exclusion of several old-timers, especially Raje supporters, in the previous list. Many had confirmed they would be contesting as independents. Daily protests marked the announcement of tickets. The Wire had reported on the troubles in the BJP earlier, and how Modi-Shah had been unable to control the rebellion.This second list has seen no MPs or prominent central leaders of the BJP being parachuted in. That is a departure from trends in Rajasthan earlier and also those seen in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh.Other important seatsIn what used to be Gulabchand Kataria’s seat, the BJP has given a ticket to Tarachand Jain from the Udaipur constituency. Jain is close to Assam governor Kataria. Jain is currently a councilor in the Udaipur Municipal Corporation.Congress’s Govind Singh Dotasara (the PCC chief in Rajasthan) will contest from Lachmangarh.Congress’s Divya Maderna, who has criticised her own government several times, will be contesting from the Osian seat.Congress’s C.P. Joshi will contest from Nathdwara.BJP’s Satish Poonia will contest from Amber.In Kota, only one seat’s candidate has been announced by the BJP, with Sandeep Sharma contesting from Kota South. Kota North candidates are yet to be announced by both parties. Currently, minister Shanti Dhariwal is the incumbent from Kota North. There is speculation that Shanti Dhariwal and Prahlad Gunjal, a former MLA, may not receive tickets for Kota North.Both the BJP and Congress are also yet to announce candidates for the Ladpura seat in Kota. This seat has been with the BJP since 2003, and BJP’s Bhawani Singh Rajawat has been demanding the ticket. Rajawat was the MLA from Ladpura seat from 2003 till 2018 when he was denied ticket in 2018 by the BJP. At that time, Ijyaraj Singh who was the Congress MP from the Kota-Bundi seat had joined the BJP, and his wife Kalpana Devi was given the ticket from the Ladpura seat.Out of 124 candidates, the BJP has given tickets to 14 women candidates. The Congress has given tickets to nine female candidates out of the 33 in its first list.