In Jaipur district, the Kotputli assembly constituency recorded a voter turnout of 12.04 per cent till 9 am, the highest among the 19 constituencies in the district.
Rajasthan Elections 2023: It was largely a PM-CM contest at the highest level, but a number of state leaders also played decisive roles in reaching out to voters. The state’s voters will not just be scripting the fortunes of these leaders but could even be deciding the future course of their parties
Rajasthan has a total of 200 assembly seats but polling will be held on 199 seats as election in Karanpur of Sriganganagar district was postponed following the death of Congress candidate Gurmeet Singh Koonar.
Gehlot’s welfare sops like his health scheme may have created enrollments but no one becomes a beneficiary from day one. In contrast, DBT schemes like Laadli Behna or PM Kisan Nidhi turn recipients into beneficiaries as soon as the first installment is released and this has a higher and immediate impact
BJP candidate from Bikaner East, Siddhi Kumari's total wealth was reported at Rs 8.89 crore in 2018 but the current affidavit showed it has increased to over Rs 100 crore. She inherited a substantial portion of her late grandmother's property this year.
The BJP blamed the Gehlot government for the rise in atrocities against women in the state, while the Congress highlighted its women-centric schemes. Nevertheless, despite women being the talking point for the polls, the BJP fielded only 20 women candidates, while the Congress registered 28.
Rajasthan Elections 2023: Amid a fascinating personality clash between PM Modi and CM Gehlot, there are also a host of issues that a large section of voters have strong opinions on. Here are seven that matter the most this time
Rajasthan election highlights: A significant total of 5,26,90,146 voters will determine the outcome of 1,862 candidates across 51,890 polling stations in the assembly constituencies.
To press home the attack against Congress on minority appeasement, law and order failures, corruption, and mindless welfarism without a clear focus, BJP needed PM Modi to lead the attack from the front and present an alternative developmental vision. No other leader in BJP has a similar connect with voters or could have delivered these messages with crystal clarity.
Rajasthan Elections 2023 highlights: The last few days saw a high-pitch electoral campaign with Congress focusing mainly on the works of the Ashok Gehlot government while the BJP attacked the Congress on issues such as crime against women and paper leak.
While PM Modi said the state had never seen a more “anti-women"” government than the current Congress regime, CM Gehlot sought a probe by a retired Supreme Court judge into the conspiracies behind the Mahadev betting app case.
Joshi has won the Hawa Mahal seat in 2018 and was elected to the Lok Sabha from Jaipur in 2009. The Congress won the Jaipur parliamentary seat only thrice – 1952, 1984 and 2009
From fielding three key sitting MPs who are potential chief ministerial candidates to going beyond Vasundhara Raje’s pet Jat votebank to woo other communities strongly, the BJP central leadership has sent not so subtle messages that it is laying the ground for fresh leadership
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Deogarh, Rajasthan ahead of Rajasthan 2023 elections. Watch him address the public live to know more.
According to the Misery Index, Rajasthan is the most miserable, while Chhattisgarh is the least. But a more nuanced look is needed, taking into account how many of those counted as employed are actually in disguised unemployment
That’s when grassroot workers interact with the party’s leaders in a morale-boosting exercise.
A caste census is necessary as the country’s Dalits and people belonging to backward classes should know their real numbers, said Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi.
In the six elections that Rajasthan has seen since the 2008 delimitation exercise, the winning party has always been the one that has secured the most number of reserved seats.
Addressing a public meeting in Dungarpur district, the prime minister said democracy has given the people of Rajasthan an opportunity to end the misrule of the Congress government and they should not let this opportunity go.
Rajasthan Elections 2023: Learning from his own experience in 2013, Ashok Gehlot focussed on welfare schemes early in his tenure and marketed them well. This has left him perched comfortably even as his MLAs look vulnerable in a state with an established track record of rejecting incumbents
Assembly Elections 2023 Highlights: Gandhi, in a poll speech in Rajasthan, had used the "panauti" barb against Modi after India lost to Australia in the World Cup cricket final in Ahmedabad, a match attended by the prime minister.
Rajasthan Elections 2023: PM Modi, Amit Shah hold mega roadshow ahead of polling day.
At a time when the opposition BJP is going to polls without announcing a chief ministerial face, people in Jaipur see her as the front runner for the top job in Rajasthan.
Rajasthan Elections 2023: Both BJP and Congress have gone to great lengths to pander to caste sensitivities in ticket distribution. Quotas on the other hand is a tightrope walk as a sop to one group can alienate another. In the end, the party that weaves the widest caste coalition could pull ahead
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced seven “guarantees”, or promises, to the people of Rajasthan if the Congress is re-elected.
