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Rajasthan Assembly polls 2023 LIVE: CM addressed rallies in Pali, Phalodi

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Focused on inflation, unemployment, and reducing wealth gap: CM Gehlot

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said that the Congress government is working on curbing inflation, lowering unemployment, reducing the wealth gap and creating brotherhood within religions

PM Modi calls Congress 'terrorists sympathisers' ahead of Rajasthan polls

PM Narendra Modi spoke on rising crime in Rajasthan and the murder of Kanhaiya Lal during a rally in Udaipur ahead of the Rajasthan State Assembly Elections 2023

Rajasthan polls 2023 LIVE: CM Gehlot addresses rally, Owaisi slams Congress

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Rajasthan HC allows BTP doctor to contest state Assembly elections 2023

Deepak Ghoghra will be competing against Bansilal Katara of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress sitting MLA Ganesh Ghoghra from Dungarpur constituency

Congress gave guarantee of bankrupting Rajasthan, alleges BJP's Poonawalla

Development, good governance and improved law-and-order situation is the BJP's poll plank in Rajasthan, the party's spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said on Wednesday and alleged the ruling Congress has given the guarantee of bankrupting the state. At a press conference in Bundi, Poonawalla said the Congress had promised free electricity up to 200 units in Himachal Pradesh and reduced power tariff with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra promising to fight inflation. Instead, they increased the price of diesel by Rs 6 since they came to power. Meanwhile in Karnataka, the Congress said they have no money left for development, the BJP spokesperson alleged. In Rajasthan, the Congress has given the guarantee of taking the state to bankruptcy. Rajasthan's treasury has been emptied and the state government has not been able to pay salaries and pensions, he alleged. On the other hand, BJP promises development, good governance, infrastructure and improved law and order situation, Poonawalla said. On Bih

Rajasthan elections 2023 LIVE: Prominent leaders join BJP ahead of polls

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Amit Shah targets CM Gehlot during rallies ahead of Rajasthan elections

Home Minister Amit Shah accused the Congress of appeasement politics, being corrupt and leading Rajasthan in crimes during his rallies in Nawan, Makrana, and Parbatsar constituencies

Rajasthan polls 2023 LIVE: Amit Shah addresses rallies in 3 constituencies

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Congress launches 'Guarantee Yatra' in Rajasthan ahead of state elections

The 'yatra' aims to inform the public in Rajasthan of Congress' seven promises to the people if the party wins the upcoming Assembly polls

Rajasthan polls: CM Gehlot, Dhariwal, rebels file nominations on last day

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Urban Development and Housing Minister Shanti Dhariwal were among those filing their nominations for the November 25 assembly polls on the last day on Monday. Several rebel leaders belonging to both the BJP and the Congress also filed nomination papers as independent candidates. BJP rebels Chandrabhan Singh Aakya, Rajpal Singh Shekhawat, Yoonus Khan, Kailash Meghwal and Ravindra Singh Bhati filed nomination papers as independent candidates from Chittorgarh, Jhotwara, Deedwana, Shahpura and Sheo respectively. Congress rebels Shiv Prasad Meena, Gaurav Sharma, Rupesh Sharma and Rakesh Boyat filed their nominations for different seats in Kota and Bundi. Ravindra Singh Bhati, a former student union president of Jai Narain Vyas University of Jodhpur, had recently joined the BJP and was expecting the party ticket from Barmer's Sheo constituency but he was denied a ticket following which he filed nomination papers as an independent candidate. Rajp

Rajasthan polls 2023 LIVE: Congress holds public meeting in Jodhpur

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Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot files nomination for Rajasthan elections 2023

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot secured 63% of the votes from the Sardarpura seat in Jodhpur district in the 2018 Assembly elections

AAP releases 5th list of 2 candidates for Rajasthan Assembly elections 2023

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) contested its first elections in the state in 2018, fielding 142 candidates out of 200 Assembly seats

BSP releases list of 26 candidates for Rajasthan Assembly elections 2023

Shortly after releasing its 43-candidate list on Saturday, the Bahujan Samaj Party has fielded another 26 candidates for the upcoming state Assembly elections in Rajasthan

Rajasthan Assembly polls: Congress releases seventh list of candidates

The Congress on Sunday released its seventh list of 21 candidates for the November 25 Rajasthan assembly polls, fielding state minister Shanti Dhariwal from the Kota North seat. The last date for submission of the nomination papers is November 6. The party has denied a ticket to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's confidante and Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation Chairman Dharmendra Rathore. Dhariwal and Rathore were among the three senior state leaders against whom the party's disciplinary committee had issued notices after they did not attend a meeting of the Congress Legislature Party in the state and held a parallel meeting of MLAs instead last year. Rathore was seeking a ticket from the Ajmer North constituency. The Congress fielded Mahendra Singh Ralawata from the seat. Mahesh Joshi, the third leader who was issued a notice by the party's disciplinary committee, has already been denied a ticket for the Assembly polls. RR Tiwari has been fielded from Hawa Mahal in his place.

ED officer arrested in Jaipur by Rajasthan anti-corruption bureau

The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau on Thursday arrested an Enforcement Directorate officer, posted in Manipur, and his associate here for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 15 lakh for settling a matter related to a chit fund case, officials said. Those arrested are Naval Kishore Meena, an enforcement officer in the federal probe agency and resident of Vimalpura in Jaipur district, and Babulal Meena, a junior assistant in the Mundawar Sub Registrar Office in the newly formed Kotpulti-Behror district of Rajasthan, the bureau said in a statement. Sources in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said that the agency will initiate a probe after lodging a criminal case of money laundering against the officer. Naval Kishore had allegedly demanded Rs 17 lakh in lieu of settling a case lodged in the ED office in Manipur capital Imphal against the complainant in the chit fund matter, the bureau said and added that he is posted at the ED's sub-zonal office in Imphal. The complainant had informed th

Several Rajasthan Congress leaders, including former MLAs, join BJP

Several leaders, including former MLAs Chandra Shekhar Vaid, Nandlal Poonia, former Jaipur mayor Jyoti Khandelwal on Saturday joined the BJP after leaving the Congress. Other leaders who joined the BJP include Hari Singh Charan, who had fought the Assembly election as an independent candidate from Mandawa, Congress leader Sanwarmal Meharia and former IPS officers Kesar Singh Shekhawat and Bhim Singh. "Trust in the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has increased. People today have trust in the guarantee of Modi ji. People have stopped believing in the guarantees given by the Congress. "They have seen what happened to guarantees, including complete farm loan waiver, providing unemployment allowance, women security, development and controlling inflation," BJP state president CP Joshi said at a press conference in Jaipur. Joshi also condemned Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's statement on the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials, saying that using such derogatory words for bureaucrats

Rajasthan polls 2023 LIVE: CM guarantees OPS, English schools, and more

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English medium schools, OPS, cow dung among CM Gehlot's election guarantees

CM Ashok Gehlot unveiled five guarantees, including free laptops for first-year students in govt colleges, Rs 15-lakh insurance cover for natural disaster losses, and cow dung at Rs 2 per kg