Rajasthan State Elections Announced
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Election Commission has announced to hold crucial assembly election in five states including Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh (MP), Rajasthan, Mizoram and Delhi next month. The assembly elections in these five states are prelude to general elections that are set to be held next year.
Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) is the ruling party in three out of the five state assemblies that are going to polls. These are bigger and populous state that may decide the fate of the two parties in the forthcoming Parliamentary elections later next year. BJP has won several assembly elections in a row including in Karnataka where BJP came to power for the fist time.
For the Congress party winning these assembly elections would be very crucial as it will reflect as to whether Congress party can hope of returning to power in the parliamentary election and also how it is able to bargain with its alliance partners in UPA.
Elections in Rajasthan
The polls in Rajasthan will be held on December 4. According to sources as per the final polls, there are 3,62,19,481 eligible voters in Rajasthan.
The state of Rajasthan will go to the polls in 2008 to elect 200 legislators, as declared by the Election Commission of India. The voting and vote counting dates have not been finalized yet. The last Rajasthan assembly elections were held in 2003 where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Vasundhara Raje had claimed a comfortable victory.
Policies by BJP in Rajasthan - For This Polls
In Rajasthan, the BJP party is expected to consider a proposal which will bar those who have failed to win thrice, consecutively, and those who had lost the previous election by a margin of more than 25,000 votes, from being given a ticket for the forthcoming elections.
Those MLAs who constituencies have been redrawn considerably on account of the delimitation process too are unlikely to be considered. This would mean that as many as 50% new faces will figure in the forthcoming assembly election line up. The party proposes to announce an initial list of candidates in the third week of October.
In the last assembly election in Rajasthan, the BJP secured its victory by a margin of 4%. This means that the BJP will need to be extremely careful while considering the winning potential of its candidates. There will also be some reworking to accommodate new caste alliances and reinforce existing ones. The BSP, which is expected to contest all 200 seats, is expected to play a spoiler and the BJP is banking on the party to cut into the Congress vote base.
