Two of India’s leading female chief ministers, Rajasthan’s Vasundhara
Raje and West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee, are set to face a test on their
own home turf.
Two Lok Sabha seats and one assembly seat in Rajasthan and a Lok Sabha and assembly seat in West Bengal will go to polls on Monday Jan 29,2018
The results for the bypolls will be announced on Thursday Feb 01,2018
The campaigning for the Ajmer, Alwar and Uluberia Lok Sabha seats and the Noapara and Mandalgarh assembly seats came to an end on Saturday and polling is set to open on Monday morning Jan 29,2018
Polls in these crucial seats were necessitated after the sitting MPs and MLAs died last year
In West Bengal, the fight for both the Lok Sabha and Assembly seat is expected to be a straight contest between the ruling All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) and the BJP, which has been struggling to find a foothold in Mamata’s bastion.
In Rajasthan, the bypolls are not only a test for chief minister Vasundhara Raje but also for Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot, who has been campaigning aggressively in Alwar and Ajmer. It is being termed as a ‘semi-final’ ahead of the all-crucial Rajasthan Assembly polls scheduled for the second half of 2018.
For Vasundhara Raje, this is a chance to thwart concerns that she is an unpopular CM facing anti-incumbency. For Pilot, it is a prestige battle since from 2009 to 2014 he has been the MP from Ajmer.
Two Lok Sabha seats and one assembly seat in Rajasthan and a Lok Sabha and assembly seat in West Bengal will go to polls on Monday Jan 29,2018
The results for the bypolls will be announced on Thursday Feb 01,2018
The campaigning for the Ajmer, Alwar and Uluberia Lok Sabha seats and the Noapara and Mandalgarh assembly seats came to an end on Saturday and polling is set to open on Monday morning Jan 29,2018
Polls in these crucial seats were necessitated after the sitting MPs and MLAs died last year
In West Bengal, the fight for both the Lok Sabha and Assembly seat is expected to be a straight contest between the ruling All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) and the BJP, which has been struggling to find a foothold in Mamata’s bastion.
In Rajasthan, the bypolls are not only a test for chief minister Vasundhara Raje but also for Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot, who has been campaigning aggressively in Alwar and Ajmer. It is being termed as a ‘semi-final’ ahead of the all-crucial Rajasthan Assembly polls scheduled for the second half of 2018.
For Vasundhara Raje, this is a chance to thwart concerns that she is an unpopular CM facing anti-incumbency. For Pilot, it is a prestige battle since from 2009 to 2014 he has been the MP from Ajmer.
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