List of 33 Congress and 83 BJP candidates released of Rajasthan
Gehlot gets ticket from Sardarpura, Pilot from Tonk; Vasundhara will contest elections from Jhalrapatan. BJP released the second list of 83 candidates for Rajasthan on Saturday, October 21. Shortly after this, Congress released the first list of 33 candidates. Vasundhara Raje will contest elections from Jhalrapatan, while the seat of Leader of Opposition Rajendra Rathore has changed. He has been given ticket from Taranagar instead of Churu. He has already contested elections from Taranagar.
BJP has given ticket to former Udaipur royal family member Vishvaraj Singh Mewar from Nathdwara. He had joined BJP only a few days ago. Congress has fielded current assembly speaker CP Joshi from Nathdwara. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has got ticket from Sardarpura and Sachin Pilot has got ticket from Tonk. Pilot is currently an MLA from Tonk.
Elections announced in 5 states, results on 3 December, voting on 17 in Madhya Pradesh, 25 in Rajasthan
On October 9, the Election Commission announced the dates of assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram. The election process in these states will last for 27 days. Voting will be held first in Mizoram on 7 November. After this, voting will be held in Madhya Pradesh on 17th November. Read the full news...
Vishwaraj of Mewar royal family in front of Assembly Speaker CP Joshi in Rajasthan, Mahariya in front of Dotasara
After a long wait, on Saturday 21st October, Congress released the first list and BJP released the second list for the assembly elections. BJP has declared candidates for 83 seats in the second list and Congress has declared candidates for 33 seats in the first list. BJP has so far declared tickets on 124 seats out of 200. There are 18 seats where both the parties have revealed their cards. In Laxmangarh, Congress state president Govind Singh Dotasara will face former BJP MP and minister Subhash Mahariya. Similarly, BJP has fielded Kunwar Vishwaraj Singh Mewar of the former royal family of Mewar against Assembly Speaker CP Joshi on Nathdwara seat. Read the full news...
In the first list of 33 Congress candidates in Rajasthan, 5 from Pilot group got tickets.
In the first list of Congress in Rajasthan, 5 people from Sachin Pilot camp have been given tickets. Along with Sachin Pilot himself, Indraj Singh Gurjar from Viratnagar, Mukesh Bhakar from Ladnun and Ramnivas Gavadiya from Parbatsar have got tickets. Former MLA Vivek Dhakad has been given ticket from Mandalgarh. Read the full news...
11 MLAs of Vasundhara faction got tickets in the second list of 83 candidates of BJP in Rajasthan.
In the second list of BJP in Rajasthan, 11 MLAs of Vasundhara faction have been given tickets. These include Kalicharan Saraf from Malviya Nagar, Pratap Singh Singhvi from Chhabra of Kota, Gurdeep Singh Shahpini from Sangaria, Srichand Kripalani from Nimbahera, Abhishek Matoria from Nauhar, Santosh Ahlawat from Surajgarh.