Rajasthan poll results 2018: Congress crosses finish line after hiccups

Raje won the Jhalrapatan Assembly constituency for the fifth consecutive term, defeating Congress candidate Manvendra Singh

Rajasthan lived up to its 25-year-old record of throwing out the incumbent government. However, few had expected the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to put up as spirited a fight as it eventually did, or that the Congress would shoot itself in the foot so grievously in its ticket distribution that it would struggle to reach the majority mark of 100 seats.

For months, the word on the street in Rajasthan was that it would yet again throw out the incumbent government, as it has consistently since 1993. People pointed at several reasons, including Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s “arrogance”.

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