Rajasthan election result LIVE: Ashok Gehlot front-runner for CM post
Rajasthan Assembly Election Result 2018: BJP chief minister Vasundhara Raje has resigned. Congress will select the state's new leader today. Stay with us for LIVE updates on Rajasthan election result
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Congress leaders Ashok Gehlot (R) and Sachin Pilot (C) flash victory signs as K C Venugopal looks on after the declaration of Rajasthan Assembly election result, in Jaipur. Photo: PTI
Rajasthan Assembly Election result 2018 LIVE: Rajasthan kept its 25-year-old record of throwing out the incumbent government. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief minister Vasundhara Raje has resigned. The Congress is yet to choose a Chief Minister.
Raje, despite the defeat of her government, won from her constituency of Jhalrapatan.
A party needs 101 seats in the 200-member Rajasthan Assembly, but the election in one seat was rescheduled after a candidate died. The BJP had won 163 seats in the 2013 Rajasthan Assembly elections and secured a vote share of 46.03%, a jump of about eight percentage points over 2008. The Congress had bagged 21 seats with a vote share of 34.27%, a fall of two percentage points.
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Rajasthan has a record of not returning any party to power since 1998 and it flip-flops between the BJP and Congress.
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Rajasthan has a record of not returning any party to power since 1998 and it flip-flops between the BJP and Congress.
The Congress was contesting on 195 seats and had given five seats to its allies — two each to the Loktantrik Janata Dal and the Rashtriya Lok Dal, and one to the Nationalist Congress Party.
The BJP was contesting in all 200 seats on its own.
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Gehlot emerges front-runner for CM post
Veteran Congress leaders Kamal Nath, Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel appear to have emerged as the frontrunners in the race for chief ministership in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh respectively as the party put in motion the process of government formation in the three states where it dislodged the ruling BJP from power in the just-concluded Assembly elections. Read full article..
Veteran Congress leaders Kamal Nath, Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel appear to have emerged as the frontrunners in the race for chief ministership in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh respectively as the party put in motion the process of government formation in the three states where it dislodged the ruling BJP from power in the just-concluded Assembly elections. Read full article..
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Sachin Pilot, Congress on next Rajasthan CM: Whatever the MLAs have to say they will say in the meeting and final decision is left to the Congress president and other party leaders. We will take a call today.
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Mayawati, BSP: Results show that people in states like Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh were totally against the BJP and its anti ppl policies and as a result chose Congress due to lack of other major alternatives.
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Mayawati: Even though we don't agree with many of Congress's policies we have agreed to support them in Madhya Pradesh and if need be in Rajasthan.
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BSP supremo Mayawati said her party will support Congress in Rajasthan, if required.
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Jayant Chaudhary, RLD: I am happy that the public has given a clear mandate in Rajasthan, for a stable Govt, our MLA will extend support to the Congress. BJP ran a negative campaign, UP CM came and talked of Ali and Bajrangbali instead of issues of farmers.
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Rajasthan results: Talks are on between former chief minister Ashok Gehlot and a few Congress rebels who won as independents in the polls, according to PTI reports.
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Rajasthan results: In a show of unity, both Gehlot and Pilot – along with other leaders – appeared before the media, flashing the victory sign.
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Rajasthan results: The decision on the new minister will be announced after the evening meeting, AICC general secretary Avinash Pande said.
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Rajasthan results: "The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting will be held at 11 am on Wednesday, in which the elected MLAs of the party will pass a resolution. The observer will seek individual opinions of the MLAs," AICC general secretary Avinash Pande said. He said Congress president Rahul Gandhi will then be briefed and a second meeting of the CLP held in the evening.
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Rajasthan results: The newly elected Congress legislators will meet Wednesday morning to discuss this. The All India Congress Committee has sent K C Venugopal as observer.
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First Published: Dec 11 2018 | 7:20 AM IST
