YEAR ENDER 2018 | Rajasthan Assembly polls: Congress takes back helm from BJP
Elections | December 27, 2018 9:28 ISTWith 99 seats (1 shot of majority) the Congress became the single largest party of the state.
With 99 seats (1 shot of majority) the Congress became the single largest party of the state.
Congress' Ashok Gehlot took oath as Chief Minister of Rajasthan in presence of Congress president Rahul Gandhi and opposition leaders. Sachin Pilot was sworn in as the Deputy CM of Rajasthan. It took place at Jaipur's Albert Hall ground.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot as Rajasthan CM and Dy CM respectively in Jaipur at 10 am. He will also attend the oath ceremony of Kamal Nath as Madhya Pradesh CM at 1:30 pm on the same day.
"We will meet the governor today and will decide on the details of the oath-taking ceremony," Venugopal said.
Two-time Chief Minister Gehlot will now take the reins of the state for the third time.
The Congress chief had earlier held a series of meetings with CM aspirants in Rajasthan -- Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot -- but no consensus emerged between the two and Pilot asserted his right for the top post.
In Churu, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rajendra Rathore of BJP won by 1,850 votes defeating his Congress rival Reface Mandelia. NOTA tally was 2,023 vote
The announcement was made during the meeting of the newly-elected MLAs in Bhopal Thursday night
Sources within the Congress said party president Rahul Gandhi has picked experienced Ashok Gehlot over Sachin Pilot to be Rajasthan CM.
Rahul Gandhi is meeting observers appointed for the three states and other senior leaders and a decision is expected only after this meeting.
With 99 seats, in Rajasthan, the Congress has emerged as the single-largest party, though they are one seat short of a majority.
In Rajasthan assembly elections, at least 15 constituencies polled more NOTA (None Of The Above) votes than the victory margin of the winning candidates.
People did not like the Congress President Rahul Gandhi being ‘ridiculed’, he said.
The Congress is all set to form government in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, however, the party is yet to decide the CM for either of the two states.
The focus in Rajasthan is now on who would be the Congress choice for chief minister between two-time CM Ashok Gehlot and the party’s state unit president Sachin Pilot.
The focus has now shifted on who would be the Congress choice for chief minister between two-time CM Ashok Gehlot or the party's state unit president Sachin Pilot.
"The results are not on the expected lines... The results are certainly an opportunity for BJP leadership and cadres to pause and analyse", he said.
As many as 13 of 19 ministers in the outgoing Vasundhara Raje government have lost the Assembly elections in Rajasthan as results and trends brought electoral reverses for the ruling BJP.
Raje won with a margin of 34,890 votes against Singh who had left the party in September and joined the Congress on October 17.
Gehlot indicated towards assembling an alliance by taking along willing parties and the candidates who have parted ways with the BJP.
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