The Rajasthan Assembly consists of 200 constituencies that will be contested. Since its formation, the state has been dominated by the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Congress secured a victory in the last elections in 2018 with 101 seats.
Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoram will go to polls on different days from November 7-30, and votes will be counted for the five states on December 3.
"Such freebies announcements have the 'tadka' of populism. Implementing the freebies and otherwise, both are difficult (choices)," CEC Kumar said while addressing a press conference in the national capital.
The names of the candidates were finalised at a meeting of its Central Election Committee (CEC) that was chaired by the BJP President JP Nadda on October 1.
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday said that elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be held at the right time and a decision will be taken accordingly after looking at the security situation in the Union Territory.
The Central Election Committee meeting of Congress to finalise candidates for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections was held in the national capital on Saturday at the party headquarters.
The Central Election Committee meeting of Congress to finalise candidates for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections is underway in the national capital on Saturday.
The Congress's Central Election Committee (CEC) will meet on Saturday to brainstorm on candidates for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly election, which is scheduled to be held later this year.
The Chief Election Commissioner of India Rajiv Kumar addressed the media in Hyderabad today about the poll preparedness of Telangana for the upcoming Assembly elections.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Central Election Committee to finalize its candidates for the forthcoming assembly elections in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
The meeting scheduled to finalise candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan is underway at the party headquarters in the national capital.