Rajasthan Assembly Election Result 2023: The five-year tenure of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly will end on 14 January 2024. Voting was held in 199 out of 200 constituencies of Rajasthan on 25 November 2023 in single-phased elections.

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It took three days for the Congress, after its electoral victory, to name a chief minister for Rajasthan. There was nothing exceptional in the delay; the Bharatiya Janata Party had consumed nearly a week before it could finalise chief ministers for Maharashtra and Haryana.

Rajasthan government will have two power centres

Congress will stake claim to form the government in Rajasthan on Wednesday evening after the party president decides on the new chief minister, Pradesh Congress Committee president Sachin Pilot said.

Rajasthan polls 2018: Congress to stake claim on govt in state, says Sachin Pilot

Ahead of the assembly election results on December 11th, the exit poll results for Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh predict a tight finish between the Congress and the BJP.

What exit polls say in 5 state elections

Selfies of people proudly showing off inked fingers flooded social media as Rajasthan went to polls Friday in 199 out of the 200 Assembly constituencies. Voters, particularly youngsters, took to platforms like WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook to post their pictures after exercising their franchise.

Rajasthan polls: Selfies with inked fingers swamp social media

The BJP transformed poll-bound Rajasthan from a 'BIMARU' to a developed state and would now make it prosperous, party president Amit Shah said here on Wednesday while predicting that his party would form a government with a full majority.

BJP transformed Rajasthan from 'BIMARU' to developed, says Amit Shah

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday latched onto Congress chief Rahul Gandhi's 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' barb at him, saying he would recite the slogan ten times in the presence of lakhs of people.

Will recite 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' 10 times: PM Modi hits back at Rahul Gandhi

With the people of Rajasthan voting for a new Assembly four days from now, the electoral script has been virtually finalised, which can change only if there are last minute dramatic twists.

Rajasthan Assembly elections 2018: Whose script will triumph?

Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot Sunday accused BJP of mixing politics with caste and other issues. 'There is huge resentment among people against Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.

BJP not doing issue based politics: Ashok Gehlot

Pitted against the BJP chief minister Vasundhara Raje in a high-stakes contest, the Congress candidate Manvendra Singh is asking voters in the Jhalrapatan constituency whether they want their vote to go in favour of an outgoing government or for the incoming one.

Will you vote for incoming government or outgoing: Congress' Manvendra Singh in Rajasthan

Pitted against the BJP's lone Muslim candidate in the state assembly polls, Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot has a poser for the saffron party - Will Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath come to Tonk to seek votes for Yoonus Khan.

'Will Yogi come to Tonk to campaign for Khan?' asks Sachin Pilot

"I am a 'sevak', not a 'pilot'": This is how the BJP candidate Yoonus Khan is pitching himself in his electoral fight against Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot for Tonk seat in the state assembly polls.

I am a 'sevak', not a 'pilot': BJP candidate Yoonus Khan's poll pitch in Rajasthan's Tonk

There could be more than meets the eye in senior Congress leader from Rajasthan, CP Joshi’s remark that questioned the competence of backward castes in understanding Hinduism and asserted that only Brahmins knew about the religion.

Rajasthan Assembly elections: With his 'Brahmin' remark, has CP Joshi cut the nose to spite the face?

In an apparent reference to Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that one of the senior Congress leaders is not being allowed to campaign for the upcoming assembly elections in the state as the party fears that people will recall the failure of their tenure if Singh campaigns.

Congress not allowing senior leader to campaign to hide failure: PM Modi

The Rajasthan Assembly election is turning out to be more than an electoral contest; at the highest level, it has become a personal fight. The Congress has shrewdly capitalised on its new entrant Manvendra Singh’s desire for revenge against the Bharatiya Janata Party for having sidelined him as well as his father since 2014.

Battle in Rajasthan isn’t merely about personalities; it’s deeply personal too 

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and minister in Rajasthan government, Surendra Goyal, submitted his resignation from the party on Monday, a day after he was denied the ticket to contest the state assembly poll.

Denied ticket, Rajasthan BJP leader Surendra Goyal quits party

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has awarded tickets to close family members of several party leaders to contest the December 7 assembly election in Rajasthan, deviating from its stand against dynastic politics.

Dynasty politics? BJP fields kin of several leaders in Rajasthan polls

To a lesser or greater degree as compared to other states, the caste factor in Rajasthan will be an important determinant in the forthcoming Assembly election. Every major leader, be it Vasundhara Raje or Sachin Pilot or Ashok Gehlot, is aware of the possibilities that a proper combination can result in, and is straining every nerve to get it right.

Caste politics rules the roost in Rajasthan assembly elections 2018

In terms of optics, the crossing over of veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh’s son, Manvendra Singh, to the Congress just weeks ahead of an Assembly election, is somewhat of an embarrassment for the BJP and a delight for the Congress.

Manvendra Singh's induction a delight for Congress

The battle for Rajasthan is not only an electoral contest between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is also a fight for supremacy among the heavyweight state leaders belonging to the two parties.

In Rajasthan, it’s the local leadership that matters

Two images on the Internet must have jolted the BJP out of reverie. Manvendra Singh – BJP MLA from Sheo – is common in both the frames. In one of the photos, he is seen clasping the hand of Congress President, Rahul Gandhi, barely concealing the smile after having formally joined the party on Wednesday.

Caste politics hold sway in the electoral arithmetic of Rajasthan

Congress president Rahul Gandhi took another potshot at Prime Minister Narendra Modi (and Anil Ambani) in Rajasthan's Dholpur on Tuesday. "Modiji took out Rs 45,000 crore from pockets of farmers and poor and gave to Anil Ambani," Gandhi said.

Nation saw Modi couldn't look youth of India in the eye: Rahul Gandhi

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