'CM Ban Rahe Hain Na…': Cong's Adhir Ranjan Shares Fun Moment With BJP MP Mahant Balaknath | Watch – News18

A day after losing control of Rajasthan, a heavy political loss for the Congress party, Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury engaged in a light moment with BJP MP Baba Balaknath where a conversation about his potential CM candidature came up.

In a video shared by news agency ANI, Chowdhury can be seen teasing the BJP MP, who registered a huge victory on Sunday in Rajasthan Assembly Polls, as the future Chief Minister of the desert state.

The video shows Chowdhury looking at the cameras and jokingly introducing Balaknath as “Rajasthan ke Naye CM” (the new chief minister of Rajasthan). To this, the BJP MP smiles and greets his Congress colleague.

BJP leader Baba Balaknath, who defeated Congress’s Imran Khan from the Tijara seat by over 6,000 votes, is seen as one of BJP’s strong choices for the CM face.

However, Balaknath has so far remained non-committal over the possibility of his becoming the chief minister of Rajasthan, even as his name is doing the rounds for the top post after the saffron party’s emphatic victory.

Others in the chief ministerial race are believed to be Vasundhara Raje, Diya Kumari, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Samaram, Govind Prasad, Jaswant Singh Yadav, Mahendra Pal, and Meena Anita Bhadel who won the Rajasthan assembly election from their respective constituencies.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) returned to power in Rajasthan on Sunday, winning 115 of the 199 seats that went to polls. The Congress, which was hoping to buck the trend of the incumbent being voted out in the desert state every five years, ended up winning 68 seats.