Voters in thirty-three Assembly constituencies of Rajasthan will see the fight of same candidates as 2013 Assembly Elections- as both the major stakeholders-BJP and Congress– choose not to change the candidates on 33 Seats.
Thirty-three of the total 200 Rajasthan Assembly constituencies are witnessing a fight between the same candidates of the BJP and the Congress who had contested the 2013 state polls. Both the parties have changed their candidates on 43 seats for the upcoming polls.
Out of the thirty-three, 29 are sitting BJP MLAs while 4 are Congress MLAs including former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
While on remaining 124 seats, Parties have decided to field new candidates.
Karanpur seat in Gangadhar District will have a fight between Mines minister Surendra Pal Singh and former Congress minister Gurmeet Singh, Gurmeet Lost to Pal with a thin margin of 3,853 votes in 2013 State Assembly while Hanumagarh seat is being contested by Water Resources minister Ram Pratap and Congress candidate Vinod Chaudhary. Chaudhary had faced defeat with a big margin of 30,487 votes but the Congress has fielded him again and the seat will witness a direct fight between both the candidates.
Sikar Constituency will see a fight between BJP’s Sitting MLA Ratan Lal Jaldhari with Former Congress minister Rajendra Pareek, is in the fray in Sikar constituency, The seat was won by BJP’s Ratan Lal Jaldhari in 2013 with a margin of 13,015 votes.
The seat in Shekhawati region is all set to witness a triangular contest with Rashtriya Loktantrik Dal’s Wahid Chauhan in the race. Chauhan contested the last polls as Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate and stood third by securing 29.10 percent votes.
The 200 assembly state will go for Polls on December 7. The Counting will take place with other four state Elections on December 11.