Campaign Diary

In March 2009 Manvendra Singh the BJP's candidate for the Barmer Lok Sabha constituency launched his election campaign to retain the seat that he had won with a record margin in 2004 and lovingly nurtured as a member of Parliament for five years. Over two months he criss-crossed his sprawling constituency straddling Rajasthan's Thar desert covering 34000 kilometres in temperatures often nearing 50°C to meet his constituents. They included herders and headmen; communities of traditional balladee...See More