Campaigning ends in for 13 Rajasthan seats; Manvendra Singh\, Gehlot\'s son in fray

Campaigning ends in for 13 Rajasthan seats; Manvendra Singh, Gehlot's son in fray

Press Trust of India  |  Jaipur 

Campaigning ended Saturday evening for the 13 seats which go to the polls in the fourth phase with minister's son Vaibhav Gehlot, former BJP MLA and now Congressman and two Union ministers in the fray.

Former Jaswant Singh's son Manvendra Singh, who switched over from the BJP to the Congress, is from Barmer, a seat once also held by his father.

Polling will take place in Tonk-Sawaimadhopur, Ajmer, Pali, Jodhpur, Barmer, Jalore, Udaipur, Banswara, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Kota and Jhalawar-Baran.

Narendra Modi, BJP and covered several key fourth-phase constituencies in the state where all 25 Lok Sabha seats went to the in the 2014 elections.

But after last year's Assembly polls, the appeared to make a comeback, forming the government in the state with a narrow majority.

Modi recently held rallies in Chittorgarh, Udaipur, Jodhpur and Barmer. held a meeting in Jalore and a roadshow in Jodhpur.

addressed public meetings in Dungarpur, Jalore, Jodhpur, Ajmer, and Kota over the past fortnight.

About 2.57 crore people are eligible to vote at 28, 182 polling stations in the 13 constituencies, where 153 candidates are in the fray.

The remaining 12 constituencies of Sriganganagar, Bikaner, Churu, Jhunjhuju, and Sikar, rural, Jaipur, Alwar, Bharatpur, Karauli-Dholpur, and will go to polls on May 6.

P P Chaudhary is contesting as the BJP candidate in Pali.

In Rajsamand, the BJP has fielded erstwhile royal family member and former MLA against Devkinandan Gurjar of Congress.

The contest in Tonk-Sawaimadhopur is between minister and Congress candidate and BJP's sitting

Ajmer seat is witnessing a fight between an industrialist and Congress candidate and BJP's Bhagirath Chaudhary.

This seat was won in 2009 by Sachin Pilot, who is now the state Congress and Rajasthan's deputy

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First Published: Sat, April 27 2019. 19:25 IST