Rajasthan Polls: A total of 544 candidates, which included Rajasthan Assembly Speaker Dr CP Joshi and former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, filed their nomination papers for the Assembly elections.
On the fifth day of the nomination filing period for the Assembly elections, 544 candidates submitted their papers for 191 constituencies. Thus far, the state has received 1,462 nomination forms from 1,079 candidates.
Chief Electoral Officer Praveen Gupta said that nomination papers would not be filed on Sunday, thus Monday will be the last day for filing nominations.
Raje filed nomination from Jhalrapatan seat.
After the nomination, she wrote on ‘X’, “Three and a half decades of togetherness and nomination for the 10th time!… Whatever I am today is because of my Jhalawar family.”
Assembly Speaker Dr Joshi filed his nomination for the Nathdwara seat.
Voting for 200 seats in the state is to be held on November 25.
With PTI inputs.
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