Congress Candidate Ratan Singh for Bharatpur Lok Sabha seat

Congress candidate Ratan Singh will contest the  2009 Lok Sabha elections from the Bharatpur Parliamentary Constituency.

Ratan Singh (Born in village Sundrawali, Bharatpur) has done B.E. in Mechanical from M.B.M. Engineering College, Jodhpur. He worked as Additional Chief Engineer in the PHED in water works. After retirement, he has recently plunged into politics.

He will be contesting against BSP’s Mohar Singh, a former central government officer, Dr Padam Singh of the SP who has served as an additional director of the Indian Council for Medical Research and BJP’s Khemchand Koli.

Bharatpur Parliamentary Constituency

Bharatpur has always bucked the general trend.  There is a Congress government in the state  but there are six BJP MLAs from here.

Of the previous four Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had won here thrice and the Congress once. In the Bayana seat, however, the BJP has been winning continuously from 1989.

In the last Legislative Assembly, the BJP has seven of the eight segments, and the Congress has one. The BJP vote is comfortably above the Congress vote.

There are about 23% SC voters, 10,000 ST votes, a sizable Meo populace in constituencies like Meev, Nagar and about half of Deeg, about 50,000 Kolis and some Gujjars.

There is also a likely possibility of BSP upsetting all possible equations as Bharatpur shares a border with Uttar Pradesh.