Rajasthan Election 2023 Live Updates: While the ruling Congress party is pitching on its welfare schemes, and guarantees under the Ashok Gehlot government, BJP is banking on polarisation along with accusations of appeasement politics, among other issues.
Rajasthan Assembly Election 2023 Voting Live Updates (November 25): Rajasthan is voting today to elect members of a new assembly, with the BJP aiming to unseat the ruling Congress led by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. Voting is presently in progress and will continue until 6 pm. A voter turnout of 68.24% was recorded in the state, the Election Commission of India said. The outcomes will be announced on December 3. The BJP is contesting on all seats while the Congress has left one seat – Bharatpur – for its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) like the 2018 elections.
Rajasthan has a total of 200 Assembly seats but polling will be held in 199 seats as the Congress candidate from Ganganagar’s Karanpur seat Gurmeet Singh Konoor passed away. As per the Election Commission officials, there are 5,26,90,146 voters in 199 constituencies. The voting will be carried out through as many as 2.74 lakh workers, 6,247 sector officials as well as over 1.02 lakh security personnel.
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While the ruling Congress party is pitching on its welfare schemes, policies and guarantees under the Ashok Gehlot government, BJP is banking on polarisation along with accusations of appeasement politics, Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal murder and riots under Gehlot government, invitations to Ram temple, as well as issues of law and order, crimes against women, corruption and paper leaks.
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On Friday, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot tweeted a video clip of Sachin Pilot appealing for votes, referring to him as “the Congress’s young leader”. Coming a day after campaigning for the Rajasthan elections had ended, the video followed the BJP’s line of attack in the last stretch accusing the Congress of having “punished” Pilot’s father Rajesh Pilot once, and of “punishing” him now.
That Gehlot led what appears to be the Congress’s counter was also significant, given that the CM and Pilot, his former deputy, have no love lost.
On the other side, it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who himself led the Rajesh Pilot front against the Congress.
Just ahead of the December 2018 Rajasthan Assembly elections, former BJP MLA Manvendra Singh, the son of party stalwart and ex-Union minister late Jaswant Singh, quit the party, protesting its alleged bid to “insult” his father.
Manvedra joined the Congress, which pitted him in the ensuing election against the then BJP chief minister Vasundhara Raje from her bastion of Jhalrapatan in Jhalawar district instead of his Sheo seat in Barmer district, his family stronghold.
Jaswant was one of the BJP’s founding members but was sidelined during Raje’s chief ministerial tenure. In the 2018 election, Raje trounced Manvendra with a huge margin.
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First published on: 25-11-2023 at 06:48 IST
