Rajasthan polls: Diya Kumari looks safe as Narpat Singh Rajvi accommodated, Scindia stays neutral

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Even if I live in a mahal, I will have my office in Vidyadhar Nagar," declares Diya Kumari, one of the seven members of Parliament brought in by the BJP in Rajasthan to fight Assembly elections...

The former princess of the Jaipur Royal Family wears her royalty with aplomb..

What has been ironical is that though Diya credits Scindia as her "political mentor", there are now murmurs in Jaipur that BJP is trying to cultivate the political greenhorn as a new power centre to counter Scindia..

The buzz in the constituency is that if BJP wins, Diya could be the next chief ministers - a royal to replace a royal..

The sitting MLA Narpat Singh Rajvi, a Scindia loyalist and son-in-law of former vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, was dropped by the party to accommodate Diya..