Political Career
Following his retirement from the army, Sawai Bhawani Singh contested the Lok Sabha elections in the year 1989 for the Indian National Congress Party but lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party leader Girdhari Lal Bhargav. He then retired from active politics and devoted his time to his family and the protection and continuation of Jaipur's traditional arts and heritage.
He was also involved in local politics, as was his late stepmother, Gayatri Devi, his father's third wife. In 1975 he was arrested and imprisoned for a short period during The Emergency due to his opposition at that time to the Congress Party.
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