[Watch] Rajasthan Starts Voting For 199 Assembly Seats

Former CM Vasundhara Raje casting her vote. Photo courtesy: ANI

New Delhi: Polling began this morning for the 199 Assembly seats in Rajasthan. While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)BJP is going all out to wrest power from the Congress, the latter hopes to beat the state’s anti-incumbency tradition.

“Polling began at 7 am today. A total of 51,507 polling booths have been set up across the state,” Rajasthan’s chief electoral officer Praveen Gupta said.

Rajasthan has a total of 200 assembly seats but polling will be held on 199 seats as the election in the Karanpur seat of Sriganganagar district was postponed following the death of Congress candidate Gurmeet Singh Koonar. There are 5,26,90,146 voters in th 199 assembly constituencies. The results of the polls will be declared on December 3.

More than 1.70 lakh security personnel have been deployed across the state. 70,000 Rajasthan Police personnel, 18,000 Rajasthan Home Guards, 2,000 Rajasthan Border Home Guards, 15,000 Home Guards from other states (Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh), and 120 RAC Companies have been deployed for the day.