BJP List of Candidates for Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2018: Second List With Names of 31 Candidates Released
In Rajasthan, the BJP is facing a strong challenge from a resurgent Congress in the state with the opposition party winning a number of by-polls in the last few years.
New Delhi, November 14: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released the second list of 31 candidates for the upcoming polls in Rajasthan which is due in December. Earlier on Sunday, the party announced its candidates for 131 of the 200 seats of the Rajasthan Assembly. Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje was fielded from her traditional seat of Jhalrapatan. The voting in the state will take place on December 7 while the counting of votes will be held on December 11.
In the first list, about 25 sitting MLAs have been dropped and 85 incumbent legislators have been repeated, party sources informed. The party has fielded its Lok Sabha MP Sona Ram Choudhary in the assembly poll and given tickets to 12 women. Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2018 Full Schedule And Dates: Single-Phase Voting on December 7, Results on December 11.
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The polling across 200 seats in the state will be held in a single phase on December 7. According to details by the Election Commission, the process for filing nomination papers for the Rajasthan assembly election has begun from November 12. According to reports, the nomination papers will be filed from 11 am to 3 PM. The last date of filing nomination is November 19.
In Rajasthan, the BJP is facing a strong challenge from a resurgent Congress in the state with the opposition party winning a number of by-polls in the last few years. In 2013, BJP under the leadership of Raje had won a whopping 163 of the 200 assembly seats in the state.
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