The Congress has suffered a complete rout in Rajasthan — it failed to open its account for the first time in the last two-and-a-half decades. The ruling BJP, on the other hand, bagged all the 25 seats.
The BJP, which had decimated the Congress in the 2013 Assembly election, consolidated its gains with Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje leading the party’s ‘Mission 25’ to make a spirited comeback after bagging just four seats in 2009.
Rebel BJP leader Jaswant Singh was trounced while Congress stalwarts and Union ministers Sachin Pilot, Jitendra Singh, Chandresh Kumari, Namonarayan Meena and Girija Vyas, and six sitting Congress MPs including CP Joshi too lost.
In 1989 also the Congress lost all the 25 seats in the State. However, then the BJP had won only 13 seats, while the Janata Dal won 11 and the CPI(M) one. This time, the BJP had to share the seats with none.