jaisalmer former union minister jaswant singh who started his political career in 1960s could not fulfil his wish of representing his native place barmer in the parliament in his sixdecade political career he won four lok sabha polls and was nominated five times to the rajya sabha he won twice from chittorgarh and once from jodhpur and darjeeling in west bengal in 2009 elections he had asked to contest from his native lok sabha seat but the party had some other plans and fielded him from darjeeling he didnt resist and contested from an alien territory realizing his age and ignorance in the party singh offered to contest lok sabha polls from barmer in 2014 he also announced the polls to be his last election the veteran started lobbying for ticket and faced opposition from a section of bjp leaders raje then had a strong influence in the party she was the one who brought congress leader sonaram choudhary in bjp and put her weight around his candidature from barmer it wasnt difficult for raje to eliminate singhs chance of contesting from barmer said a source close to singh disgruntled by the denial singh made the tough call of going ahead as an independent candidate from barmer the decision hogged national limelight and bjp leaders did everything to convince him to drop the idea but he didnt budgefinally he did contest from his native place as an independent but lost to his partys candidate col sonaram choudhary by a margin of 80000 votes