RAJASTHAN POLLS

Congress adds 61 more candidates for Rajasthan polls

01 Nov 2023

On October 31, the Congress announced 61 additional candidates for the Rajasthan Assembly elections, including Manvendra Singh, a BJP defector, and Gourav Vallabh, the party's national spokesperson. Singh has been nominated from Siwana, while Vallabh has been fielded from Udaipur. Seven sitting MLAs have been denied tickets in the Congress's...

Rajasthan polls: Sachin Pilot files a nomination from Tonk

31 Oct 2023

Sachin Pilot, a former deputy chief minister of Rajasthan, put in his nomination from the Tonk assembly constituency on Tuesday for the upcoming state elections. Prior to submitting his nomination paperwork, Pilot prayed at the temple of Bhuteshwar Mahadev. Later, he led his supporters in a procession from Tonk City's...

Rajasthan polls: BJP top officials conduct meetings in Delhi ahead of the party’s central election panel meeting

01 Oct 2023

The BJP's top officials here on Saturday to discuss the impending assembly election in Rajasthan, ahead of the party's central election committee meeting. The central election committee meeting of the party is scheduled for Sunday. This comes only days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP President J P Nadda...

Gehlot expects to meet Sonia Gandhi today over Rajasthan crisis

29 Sep 2022

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is slated to meet with Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday, in an effort to defuse the crisis that was started in Rajasthan when lawmakers sympathetic to him challenged the appointment of his opponent Sachin Pilot to the position of governor. When it came to selecting...