Rajasthan Elections 2023: 'Gehlot doesn't want to be CM again but the post wants him back'
Gehlot said that there are no differences between Sachin Pilot and him and nearly all the candidates who are aligned with Sachin Pilot have been shortlisted for polls, and he has not raised any objections.
Assembly Elections 2023: Huge rise in capex, but all 5 states may not meet targets
Capital expenditure of the five poll-bound states – Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Telangana – is up 44-443 percent year-on-year in the first five months of 2023-24. But not all five states are on track to meet their budget estimates
Assembly Elections 2023: Behind BJP’s ticket distribution strategy is a growing appetite for risk taking
Assembly elections 2023: : From letting big leaders know that they aren’t bigger than the organisation to fuelling the political ambitions of ordinary workers despite the pitfalls of upsetting the settled order, and downsizing sitting MPs to contest assembly polls, much experimentation is going on in BJP ticket distribution and there is a method to it
Congress discusses candidates for Rajasthan polls, Mallikarjun Kharge says people will 'bless us' due to good governance
Kharge, former Congress presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, AICC in-charge of state Sukhjinder Randhawa, Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee chief Govind Dotasra, general secretary organisation K C Venugopal, party's Rajasthan screening committee chief Gaurav Gogoi, among others, attended the meeting.
Congress discusses candidates for Rajasthan polls
The party's Central Election Committee, chaired by AICC chief Mallikarjun Kharge, held a meeting to deliberate on the names of candidates for the November 25 polls in the desert state.
Rajasthan Elections 2023: Will Congress’s 'Kaam kiya dil se' or BJP’s 'Nahi sahega Rajasthan' carry the day?
Rajasthan Elections 2023: There’s the strong Rajasthan tendency to vote out incumbents, there’s Marwar giving no hints which way it will swing, there’s Ashok Gehlot deploying lessons from states which bucked the alternating government trend, and there are issues like unemployment, law and order, women’s safety and communalism where Gehlot’s record is weak
Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2023: Cong turns to ratings, sheds 'sitting-getting' formula for poll list
The grand old party has rarely followed the strategy of dropping sitting MLAs, a practice mostly opted by the Bharatiya Janata Party by bringing in new faces in every state assembly election.
Can Gehlot’s charm overpower Modi’s magic in Rajasthan?
As Rajasthan gets ready for the assembly election, two pre-poll surveys have thrown up contradictory outcomes for the state where smaller political parties traditionally play a vital role
Assembly Elections 2023: Ten big (and common) themes across the poll-bound states
Politics is an immensely difficult vocation to pursue and this is intensified by competitiveness and complexities of India’s electoral politics. But we found that governments across the poll-bound states that best negotiate these ten aspects of the coming elections may finish first past the post
Rajasthan election officials get over 500 complaints in 48 hours of MCC imposition
Gupta said that the maximum number of complaints (79) were received from Jaipur district.
Rajasthan Elections 2023: Polling date changed to November 25
The EC has changed poll dates in view of large-scale wedding and social engagement on November 23
Rajasthan Assembly Election 2023: BJP sidelines Raje, old-guards as part of attacking game plan
The BJP's first list of 41 candidates has seven MPs and doesn't have the names of two Raje loyalists. The strategy reveals that the party is confident of a win and is ready for a generational shift in Rajasthan
Assembly elections 2023: BJP fields 7 MPs for Rajasthan, CM Chouhan to contest from his traditional Budhni seat
Rajasthan goes to polls on November 23. The votes for the 200-seat assembly will be counted on December 3
Rahul Gandhi announces Congress Working Committee's decision to conduct caste census in 4 ruling states
Rahul Gandhi stated that most of the alliance partners within INDIA alliance will support the idea of a caste census. He emphasized that the decision to implement a caste census is not a political choice but a step taken to promote social justice.
Rajasthan Assembly Election Dates: State to for polls in single phase on Nov 23
Voting for the 200 assembly constituencies will take place in a single phase on November 23. The term of the Rajasthan State Assembly is set to end on January 14, 2024.
How much do state election results affect national elections? | December 3rd: The 2024 semi-final
The Election Commission has announced that the counting day of 5 state which will go to polls in November will be on 3rd December. These elections are especially crucial, since they come ahead of the mega national elections in 2024. How much do state elections impact national poll results -- and what should we be watching out for? Catch this conversation between Moneycontrol's Stacy Pereira and CNN News18's Rahul Shivshankar!
A brewing PM-CM showdown promises an electoral thriller in Rajasthan
Despite its track record of ousting incumbents, Rajasthan this election is giving no indications of which way it will swing. Apart from the Pilot rebellion, Ashok Gehlot has run a tight ship. BJP has ramped up its Hindutva pitch but is weakened by leadership squabbles
Assembly elections 2023: 5 states to go on polls from Nov 7, results on Dec 3; checkdetails here
Assembly elections 2023: Chhattisgarh to vote on November 7 and November 17, Madhya Pradesh to vote on November 17; Mizoram on November 7, Rajasthan on November 23 and Telangana on November 30. The results for all will be declared on December 3.
How will assembly elections in five states affect BJP and Congress in Lok Sabha polls?
Lok Sabha elections are a different ball game but the temptation to read a larger impact to these assembly polls is very strong too. It is more likely that the issues which dominate national politics closer to March will influence the LS polls. But the 2023 outcome could have implications like who gets to lead the opposition or whether BJP could lose some sitting seats
State Elections 2023: Its political outcomes will impact the economy and markets
While the state poll outcomes of 2018, 2013, 2008 and 2003 had limited impact on the markets or the economy, this time could be different. As the stakes go up and parties make big welfare guarantees this will come at the cost of infrastructure spending, which will have repercussions on markets and the economy
Assembly election 2023 dates: Semifinal to 2024 starts from Nov 7. Results of 5 state polls on December 3
Assembly election 2023 highlights: The elections start on November 7 in Chhattisgarh and Mizoram. Chhattisgarh will go to the polls in two phases– first on November 7 and then on November 17. Polling in Madhya Pradesh will be on November 17. Rajasthan and Telangana will go to polls on November 25 and 30 respectively. Counting for all states will take place on December 3.
EC to announce Assembly poll dates for 5 states today at noon
Assembly polls in the five states are likely to be held between mid-November and the first week of December. The terms of the legislative assemblies of Telangana, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan will end on different dates in January 2024.
Why BJP thinks it is winning Rajasthan, and Congress thinks it is winning Madhya Pradesh?
The Madhya Pradesh election is centred around which way the women and the OBC voters lean, and the story in Rajasthan revolves around the traditional cyclic change in power.
Ahead of upcoming polls, freebie season returns to India
From free televisions to public transport, most parties go all out to woo voters
