Rajasthan Assembly Election Results 2018: CM Vasundhara Raje visits Tripurasundari temple

Rajasthan Assembly Election Results 2018: Amid tight security, counting of votes in order to elect a new Assembly in Rajasthan began Tuesday morning amid tight security.

By: ABP News Bureau | Updated at : 11 Dec 2018 09:30 AM (IST)

Rajasthan Assembly Election Results 2018: CM Vasundhara Raje visits Tripurasundari temple Rajasthan Assembly Election Results 2018: CM Vasundhara Raje visits Tripurasundari temple

Ahead of the counting of votes for 199 Assembly seats in Rajasthan, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje visited the Tripurasundari temple in Banswara district on Tuesday morning. As stated by an official, the Rajasthan CM will be praying till the announcement of results. Amid tight security, counting of votes in order to elect a new Assembly in Rajasthan began Tuesday morning amid tight security. As stated by the Election Commission, counting for 199 seats out of 200 assembly constituencies is underway, the election for which were held on December 7. As many as 35 centres have been set up in the state. Except for Jaipur and Jodhpur where there are two counting centres and each district has one centre. Polling took place in 15,687 polling centres across the 199 constituencies on December 7 and the state recorded a turnout of 74.21 per cent, a tally just short of the 75.23 per cent registered in the previous assembly election. The BJP and Congress are the main political parties in the state. Both the parties have claimed that they will emerge victorious in the elections. Among BJP's heavyweights whose fate will be decided on Tuesday is Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje. The outgoing chief minister is seeking re-election from Jhalrapatan assembly seat. Among Congress' bigwigs in the fray are former chief minister Ashok Gehlot from Sardarpura and Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot from Tonk. The election in Alwar's Ramgarh constituency was postponed due to the death of the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Laxman Singh and next date of the poling will be notified later.

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Rajasthan Assembly Election Results 2018: CM Vasundhara Raje visits Tripurasundari temple

Rajasthan Assembly Election Results 2018: Amid tight security, counting of votes in order to elect a new Assembly in Rajasthan began Tuesday morning amid tight security.

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