Jat Votes Key In Fight At Rajasthan's Bharatpur, Once A Princely State

Bharatpur in eastern Rajasthan, known for the migratory birds that flock here every winter, is now looking at some realpolitik. It is one of the only two former princely kingdoms in Rajasthan that had Jat rulers; the other one in neighbouring Dholpur is the home turf of former chief minister Vasundhara Raje, its former Maharani. Another former royal has had an equally successful career, the former Maharaja of Bharatpur Vishwendra Singh, who held the Bharatpur seat since the 1990s representing it three times as a parliamentarian and twice as a state legislator.