Assembly Elections 2023 Highlights: People are angry with Congress, have unbreakable faith in BJP, says PM Modi

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While addressing a public meeting today in Jaipur, AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi said, "For the first time in Rajasthan, AIMIM is going to contest elections. I would request you all that till yesterday you didn't have an alternative option, today AIMIM came across as one. In Rajasthan, you voted for the Congress party with the expectation of strengthening the weak community..."

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi says "Wherever PM Modi comes he abuses me...it's good, I don't care. I have already told you my goal, which is to provide the same amount of money to the poor that PM Modi gives to Adani. I am counting, you give one rupee to Adani, I will give one rupee to the poor..."

"Entire Rajasthan has announced that Congress is going out of power while the BJP is coming to power in the state. Congress is going to be defeated in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and now it is Rajasthan's turn to defeat the party," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public rally in Baytu, Rajasthan.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s election rally at Amla in the Betul district of Madhya Pradesh was cancelled as the helicopter that was supposed to carry him developed some technical snag, reported PTI.

"The BJP that worked under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Vasundhara Raje and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat used to believe in 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas and Sabka Vishwas'. However, the current BJP is ignoring Dalits, youths and others, and that is why I have decided to leave BJP and join Congress," said former BJP leader Amin Pathan on joining Congress ahead of the assembly elections.

On Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Murkho ke sardar" statement, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot says, "It is very unfortunate. The Prime Minister's post holds dignity...The more it is criticised, the less it is. If a man holds a position of dignity but says things like this, what can you expect from him?..."

Leaving behind her days of seeking alms at Delhi's traffic signals, 32 year-old transgender Chithrapu Pushpithalaya has found her calling in social service and is now testing her electoral fortunes as the BSP's Warangal (East) candidate for the November 30 polls. She is pitted against the might of the ruling BRS and the Congress. If elected, she promises to provide good education, not only to transgenders, but to all.

All five states where elections are taking place this month – Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Telangana – have improved their electoral roll gender ratio since 2018. In Madhya Pradesh, the ratio has risen to 945 now from 917 in the previous assembly elections. Expectedly, both the national parties in the state – the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party and challenger Congress – have gone all out to reach out to women voters who make up 27.2 million of the electorate, a tad less than their male counterparts at 28.8 million.

In the face of "simmering anger" against the ruling BRS in Telangana, the BJP will get a comfortable majority to form its first government in the state after the November 30 polls, state BJP chief G Kishan Reddy has said. There will be no hung assembly and the saffron party will land in the ruling saddle comfortably, Reddy told PTI.

Rahul Gandhi has finally decided to hit the campaign trail as the high-octane battle for the Rajasthan Assembly gets stormy. The Lok Sabha MP and former Congress president, who was last seen in the state at a party workers' meeting at Jaipur on September 23, has lined up rallies and roadshows starting November 16.

A male nurse at the district hospital in Rajasthan's Dungarpur is contesting against a doctor of the same facility in the November 25 assembly elections, springing a bitter pill for the senior colleague after working 10 years together as healers.