After a high-decibel election campaign, voting is underway in Rajasthan onFriday Dec 07,2018
Voting started at 8 am for 199 out of 200 seats in Rajasthan
Voting in Alwar district’s Ramgarh constituency has been postponed due to the death of BSP candidate Laxman Singh.
In Rajasthan, over 4.75 crore people will cast their vote and over 2,000 candidates are in the fray for 199 assembly seats.
Voting will be held at 51,687 polling booths, 259 of them managed exclusively by women officials and security personnel.
The polling will determine whether the BJP bucks anti-incumbency and an increasingly aggressive Opposition to return to power.
In about 130 constituencies, the contest appears to be mainly between the BJP and the Congress. In the current House, the BJP has 160 seats and the Congress 25
Jat leader Hanuman Beniwal is a concern for both the parties. He founded the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party and has fielded 58 candidates.
The main BJP rebels include four ministers — Surendra Goyal (Jaitaran), Hem Singh Bhadana (Thanagaji), Dhan Singh Rawat (Banswara), Rajkumar Rinwa (Ratangarh)
BJP MLAs Navnit Lal Ninama (Dungarpur), Kishnaram Nai (Shri Dungargarh) and Anita Katara (Sagwara) have also defied the party.
Voting in Alwar district’s Ramgarh constituency has been postponed due to the death of BSP candidate Laxman Singh.
In Rajasthan, over 4.75 crore people will cast their vote and over 2,000 candidates are in the fray for 199 assembly seats.
Voting will be held at 51,687 polling booths, 259 of them managed exclusively by women officials and security personnel.
The polling will determine whether the BJP bucks anti-incumbency and an increasingly aggressive Opposition to return to power.
In about 130 constituencies, the contest appears to be mainly between the BJP and the Congress. In the current House, the BJP has 160 seats and the Congress 25
Jat leader Hanuman Beniwal is a concern for both the parties. He founded the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party and has fielded 58 candidates.
The main BJP rebels include four ministers — Surendra Goyal (Jaitaran), Hem Singh Bhadana (Thanagaji), Dhan Singh Rawat (Banswara), Rajkumar Rinwa (Ratangarh)
BJP MLAs Navnit Lal Ninama (Dungarpur), Kishnaram Nai (Shri Dungargarh) and Anita Katara (Sagwara) have also defied the party.
Who is fighting from which seat in Rajasthan?
Vasundhara Raje,
who is the BJP's chief ministerial candidate, is fighting against
veteran BJP leader Jaswant Singh's son Manvendra Singh in Jhalrapatan,
the constituency she has represented since 2003.
Manvendra Singh switched to the Congress just before the election, making the fight tougher for Raje this time. She had won 63 per cent of the votes cast in 2013, winning the seat by a margin of 60,896.
Tonk, with a sizeable Muslim population, is a keenly-watched contest between Sachin Pilot and BJP candidate and Rajasthan Transport Minister Yoonus Khan, who is the saffron party's only Muslim face in the elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had initially fielded sitting MLA Ajit Singh Mehta in Tonk. But in a change of strategy, the party dropped him and sent Khan to take on Pilot.
Ashok Gehlot, who is also seen as a chief ministerial candidate for the Congress, is contesting from Sardarpura, a constituency he now represents.Gehlot has been the Rajasthan chief minister twice.
Manvendra Singh switched to the Congress just before the election, making the fight tougher for Raje this time. She had won 63 per cent of the votes cast in 2013, winning the seat by a margin of 60,896.
Tonk, with a sizeable Muslim population, is a keenly-watched contest between Sachin Pilot and BJP candidate and Rajasthan Transport Minister Yoonus Khan, who is the saffron party's only Muslim face in the elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had initially fielded sitting MLA Ajit Singh Mehta in Tonk. But in a change of strategy, the party dropped him and sent Khan to take on Pilot.
Ashok Gehlot, who is also seen as a chief ministerial candidate for the Congress, is contesting from Sardarpura, a constituency he now represents.Gehlot has been the Rajasthan chief minister twice.
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