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Polling Updates Live on Election Commission Website – Bookies Betting Big on Congress to Win

Indian General Election Results to Be Announced on Saturday 16, 2009

The whole nation is waiting eagerly for the election results that are scheduled for Saturday 16, 2009. There is a sense of suspense and enthusiasm among the citizens.

Counting of votes will commence at 8 am on Saturday for all the 25 seats in Rajasthan State. The Election Commission has made the accessibility of the election updates easier than ever before. Now you can just visit the Election Commission of Rajasthan website (http://ceorajasthan.nic.in/) or Call at the Call Centers to get updated trends and results.

According to state chief electoral officer, all the counting stations of the state have been connected to Internet and the EC staff will keep updating the information at completion of each round of counting.

The position of all the recognized seven national parties in the state will be shown separately at the website, enabling the viewer to check the contemporary position of the party candidates in trends and results. The position of other candidates will also be displayed separately.

Arrangements For Secure and Safe Counting in Pink City

The counting for two seats Jaipur and Jaipur Rural will be held at the Commerce College and Rajasthan College respectively. Special measures have been taken to ensure security during the process and special entry passes and routes have been provided to the officials.

Fire brigade, an ambulance and security personal in big numbers will be deputed at the counting station. The officials included in the process are instructed to report at the counting station two hours before the process of counting begins.

As many as 2,704 counting tables are setup at the counting centers in all constituencies. While the maximum of 24 counting tables are setup for Jhotwara Assembly segment of Jaipur constituency, a minimum of 10 such tables are set up for several smaller segments.

Congress may Emerge as the Largest Party

Whatever may be the outcome of the Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan, the punters are betting on Congress emerging as the single largest party, according to bookies in Rajasthan.

If one goes by present odds being offered in the betting market, then the Congress is likely to win 140 to 145 seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 125 to 130 seats.

The betting market in Rajasthan is considered huge and as per rough estimates, it deals at over Rs.500-600 crores.

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Kiran Maheshwari – BJP candidate for Ajmer Parliamentary Constituency of Rajasthan

Kiran Maheshwari for Ajmer Parliamentary Constituency, Rajasthan Elections

Kiran Maheshwari for Ajmer Parliamentary Constituency, Rajasthan Elections

Kiran Maheshwari is the BJP Candidate for Ajmer Parliamentary Constituency of Rajasthan State in General Elections India 2009. She will Contest against Congress candidate Sachin Pilot.

Political Career

Maheshwari had won from Udaipur Lok Sabha seat in 2004 against Congress leader Girija Vyas, but after delimitation Udaipur became a Scheduled Tribe seat. She resigned as MP late last year and successfully contested the Assembly elections from Rajsamand. Barely four months after her election as an MLA, she is now again aspiring to be an MP from Ajmer.

After getting Nominated as a Candidate, she claimed that after winning the elections, she would solve every problem of the district and her preferences are to extend the broad gauge in Ajmer and provide 24 hours drinking water supply.

When asked if her being an MLA and now vying for the Ajmer seat could send a wrong message to voters in her assembly seat, she replied, “I am not the only MP who is contesting elections while being an MLA. There are many political leaders who while being MLAs are in fray for Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.”

Why She is Nominated from Ajmer?

Kiran’s candidature reflects that party had difficulty in finding a suitable candidate against Sachin Pilot, who is contesting from Ajmer after a major chunk of Gujjar vote bank was attached to the constituency after delimitation.

But BJP analysts have other things in mind that Kiran would help Rasa Singh Rawat who is contesting from Rajsamand and in return Rawat would provide his Rawat community vote bank.

Rasa Singh Rawat has won the Ajmer seat five times in past elections because of Rawat vote bank.

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Congress Announces Second List of candidates for General Elections from Rajasthan

Congress Anounces More Candidates for General Elections in Rajasthan

Congress Anounces More Candidates for General Elections in Rajasthan

Congress has announced the names of six candidates from Rajasthan for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2009. The list was finalized in a meeting of the Central Election Committee of the Congress Party, chaired by its President Sonia Gandhi on Friday.

Who will Contest in Elections From Congress in Rajasthan?

Union Minister Namo Narayan Meena is among the six candidates from Tonk-Sawai Madhopur constituency announced by the Congress. Meena is a sitting MP from Sawai Madhopur, an ST-reserved constituency that has now been restructured as general Tonk-Sawai Madhopur seat.

Congress second list has a surprise inclusion in the form of Divya Singh from Jaipur rural seat. Wife of Bharatpur royal scion, Vishvendra Singh, Divya was a BJP MLA from Deeg and the couple had joined Congress on the eve of the assembly polls after she was replaced by Digambar Singh from newly carved Deeg-Kumher seat.

She was also MP from Bharatpur LS seat before her husband won from there in 2004 as BJP candidate. Bharatpur is now reserved for SC category and Divya has been fielded from Jaipur rural eyeing a decisive presence of Jat vote bank.

Congress’s Churu candidate Rafique Mandelia, is a relative of Churu MLA Maqbool Mandelia. He is the only Muslim candidate in the party’s list so far.

Ijjeyaraj Singh, the candidate from Kota, is son of Kota ex-royal, Brijraj Singh, the four-time MP from Jhalwar.

Other candidates includes  Mahadev Singh Khandela and Khilari Lal Bairwa will be nominated for Sikar and Karauli-Dholpur seats respectively.

The party, however, could not announce its candidate from Alwar. Its nominee Bhanwar Jitendra Singh had expressed reluctance in contesting from the seat owing to health reasons.

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