Assembly election results 2018: As per trends and results, the Congress has crossed the majority mark of 100 seats in the 200-member state assembly with the BJP trailing at about 70 seats. read more

Counting of votes began at 8 am today for the Rajasthan assembly elections with trends at 12. 30 pm showing the Congress racing ahead in 95 seats and the BJP in 79. As trends started trickling in, celebrations broke out in Jaipur outside the houses of Pradesh Congress Committe chief Sachin Pilot and former chief minister Ashok Gehlot as caretaker chief minister Vasundhara Raje prayed at Tripur Sundari temple in Banswara. “The Congress will get clear majority, still we would want independent candidates And parties other than BJP to support us if they want,” Gehlot said. (Hindustan Times)read more

A curious trend has emerged in the state in the past 20 years, where neither the BJP nor the Congress has come to power for a second consecutive term. read more

Anticipating the victory of Congress in the Rajasthan assembly elections after receiving favourable decisions in the exit polls, senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot on Friday said that he would love to work at whatever position the “high command” in the party will decide for him, adding that he is not keeping the Chief Minister post as his priority. The exit polls are predicting the Congress party to sweep Rajasthan. While the CVoter-Republic TV, CNX-Times Now and Axis My India- India Today exit polls project the Congress party to be surging ahead, India TV survey predicts a close contest between the two rival parties. (Hindustan Times)read more

Rajasthan assembly elections 2018: Having been patronised by the palace in the early years of his political career, Gehlot has sought to partake of the Rathore legacy in the upcoming elections. read more

Rajasthan assembly election 2018: Top Congress leaders including Congress general secretary Avinash Pande, Mukul Wasnik and leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, are in Jaipur and working on damage control and campaigning for the December... read more

Rajasthan assembly elections 2018: Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot said that BJP government had closed universities set up by former Congress government and promised that those universities will be opened again. read more

Rajasthan assembly election 2018: Congress leader Ashok Gehlot said, “when the high command has to decide everything after the elections, there is no issue for any fight with Sachin Pilot.” read more

AICC general secretary Ashok Gehlot, who is contesting December 7 assembly elections from Jodhpur’s Sardarpura seat, is conducting electioneering in Mewar region for the party. read more

A Rajasthan Congress leader said on condition anonymity that the senior leaders were getting in touch with the rebels and pacifying them. Around 15 of them have promised to withdraw their nominations on Thursday, he said. read more

It is believed that Vaibhav Gehlot, son of AICC general secretary and former Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, could contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Sawai Madhopur parliamentary constituency. read more

Voters in Rajasthan haven’t elected the same party to power for two terms in a row for the past two decades.read more

Former chief minister Ashok Gehlot, Manvendra Singh of Congress and Mamta Sharma and Kalpana Raje of BJP were among the candidates who filed their nominations for Rajasthan assembly election on Monday. read more

Ashok Gehlot, an AICC general secretary, had announced on Wednesday that he and Rajasthan Congress president Sachin Pilot would contest the December 7 assembly elections in the state. read more

Rajasthan assembly elections 2018: Congress’ first list includes 18 women, and around 64 faces have been changed. The party has denied ticket to two sitting MLAs — Ghanshyam Mehr from Toda Bhim and Narayan Singh from Dataramgarh (his son Virendra Choudhary... read more