Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2018

Manvendra Singh won as a BJP candidate from the Sheo assembly constituency of Barmer district in 2013 assembly polls

Announcing Singh's induction into the Congress on the social media, Gandhi said it had bolstered the party's strength

The Singh family holds Vasundhara Raje responsible for denying Jaswant a ticket in 2014 and by defeating the CM, it is hoping to 'avenge the insult and humiliation' of the Rajputs by the BJP

A travel across the BJP veteran's native Barmer district to capture his legacy and gauge the mood of the people as Rajasthan gears up for polls

Parsadi Lal was named industry minister, and Master Bhanwar Lal Meghwal is in charge of social justice and empowerment department

Out of 199 MLAs, 23 are women as against 28 from the same gender in the 2013 state polls

The BJP lost its governments to Congress in the Hindi heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in the just concluded polls

To waive crop loans up to Rs 100,000 per indebted farmer, Rajasthan will need to spend Rs 219 billion from its fiscal kitty

It was Poonia's second attempt to get an entry in the Rajasthan legislature

Several of the independent candidates are Congress rebels and are likely to support the party when it comes to government formation, another party leader said

The real question, however, is whether the BJP will draw the right lessons from the results at the end of 2018 for next year's general elections and return to aspirational politics

Voting trends and result will be telecast at public places for the first time in the state through 350 LED screens

Rajasthan voted for 199 seats of its 200-member Assembly on December 7 and results will be declared on Tuesday

Manavendra Singh and Colonel Sonaram Choudhary tell Business Standard why they jumped ship

NCPCR said action will be taken against the candidate, Shobha Chauhan from Sojat constituency in Pali district of Rajasthan, once authenticity of her reported statement is ascertained

Sooni cattle, or cows and bulls that are not economically useful and have no owners, are becoming a burden and menace in towns and cities but fear of violence and the law blocks any planned solution.

The electioneering for the Rajasthan assembly elections initially focused on farmers' issues, corruption and the youth

BJP has tried to talk up a rivarly between Pilot and Gehlot but there seems little concern about who the Congress' CM would be

Gandhi during a rally in Alwar district said the prime minister recites Bharat Mata ki Jai in all his election rallies, but works for industrialist Anil Ambani

Singh said the BJP would win not only the state oplls but will also emerge victorious in the national elections