Rajasthan Assembly Election

Rajasthan Results: What is state’s ‘revolving door’ policy that suggests BJP will win?

Political history suggests that voters in Rajasthan have not elected the same party for two terms in a row for over three decades now. The BJP is likely to consolidate on anti-incumbency sentiment, early leads show

Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2023: Former Deputy CM Sachin Pilot leads from Tonk

In 2013, BJP candidate Ajit Singh Mehta won the Tonk seat by defeating Independent candidate Saud Saidi with a margin of 30,343 votes

Personal or political? What’s the reason behind Sonia Gandhi’s temporary shift to Rajasthan?

The Congress says Sonia Gandhi has shifted to Jaipur for a few days to avoid the worsening air quality in Delhi. However, her visit is being viewed from a political lens, especially amid the party’s likely bleak prospects in the upcoming Assembly polls

Rajasthan polls: Meet Teetar Singh, the man who lost 20 elections, but is trying again

Teetar Singh has contested every election since the 1970s. Despite never winning, he is running again in the 25 November Assembly elections in Rajasthan. Here’s what he has to say about fighting and losing 20 elections in 50 years, as well as what motivates him to fight again

FirstUp: From India’s RAPIDX to Rafah crossing, here’s what’ll make news today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil India’s first high-tech RAPIDX train today. There’s hope that the Rafah crossing on the Egypt-Gaza border will open

'When the best is chosen among excellent...:' Rajasthan LoP on dissatisfaction over BJP's first list of candidates

"...When the 'best' is chosen among the 'excellent', a few minor issues arise. But there is nothing as such that would lead to a party candidate going away from the party...People are being pacified and spoken to, they will relent," said Rathore

Rajasthan 2023 elections: The glaring marginalisation of Vasundhara Raje

Despite having such a significant Rajmata legacy and a strong political connection, the marginalisation of Yashodhara and Vasundhara is evident

Assembly election 2018 results: Congress emerges victorious in Hindi heartland; Rahul Gandhi says poll outcome 'message to Modi govt'

Congress' performance in the Assembly elections on Tuesday, gave a big blow to the BJP, specially in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, where the grand old party came back to power after 15 years. PTI

Huge margins in exit poll results indicate BJP's dominance is waning in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh

The exit poll data is either confusing or the numbers are too close, and the one thing this indicates is that the dominance of the BJP in these states is waning though the prime minister campaigned hard.

Assembly election exit poll results 2018: Vasundhara Raje out, KCR in and other key takeaways from surveys

Voting for Assembly elections in five states — Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Telangana and Chhattisgarh — was held between 12 November and Friday