Rajasthan is voting today to elect new representatives to the 200-member state Legislative Assembly.
The Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in the state is fighting a tough battle both against anti-incumbency and against the main rival BJP, which is aiming to unseat the ruling Congress.
The Congress has said that this time the revolving door tradition would change in Rajasthan as people were rejecting the “politics of polarization” and voting for the party’s achievements and guarantees.
Polling which began at 7 am will end at 6 pm in 199 out of 200 constituencies, with stringent security arrangements in place. The election in Sriganganagar’s Karanpur seat has been adjourned due to the death of the Congress candidate, Gurmeet Singh Koonar.
A total of 1,862 candidates are in the fray, and the number of voters is 5,25,38,105. This includes 1,70,99,334 voters in the age group of 18-30, with 22,61,008 being new voters aged 18-19.
The current composition of the Legislative Assembly is 107 Congress MLAs, 70 BJP, 3 RLP, 2 each of CPI (M) and Bhartiya Tribal Party (BTP), 1 Rashtriya Lok Dal, 13 independents, and two vacant seats (Udaipur and Karanpur).
24.74% voter turnout was recorded in the state till 11am, as per the Election Commission of India.
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