Rajasthan Rural Polls

The Congress is in the lead in the panchayat elections in six districts of Rajasthan. Ashok Gehlot-led Congress has won 670 panchayat samiti seats and is likely to form the board in 4 zila parishads.

The ruling Congress was ahead of the BJP in the panchayat polls in six districts of Rajasthan, bagging 670 of the 1,564 panchayat samiti seats and 93 of the 200 zila parishad seats on Saturday.

The ruling Congress in Rajasthan has beaten the BJP in urban local body elections held days after the party suffered a setback in rural polls.

The polling for the first phase of election of the sarpanch and panch in 947 gram panchayats in Rajasthan began on Monday morning.

Sachin Pilot shaves by a haystack, chews on a Neem branch and sleeps on a charpoy in his outreach in one of the most rural regions of Rajasthan, where his Congress party failed to win a single seat in the national election last month.

Gayathri Rathore, the wife of BJP leader and former Olympian Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, claimed today her husband's five years as a member of parliament, representing the Jaipur Rural Lok Sabha seat, had led to "so much development".

The fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election witnesses several high-stake battles between the BJP and opposition parties, with people from 51 Lok Sabha constituencies across seven states casting their votes today to form the next government. The foremost among them is Amethi, where Congress president Rahul Gandhi will try to hold his own against the B...

Ministries in Rajasthan were announced around 2:30 am on Wednesday after Congress president Rahul Gandhi stepped in to resolve a reported tussle between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his deputy Sachin Pilot over key portfolios like home and finance.

In the run-up to the assembly polls in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoram, rural economy emerged as the most talked about election-related topic over the past nine weeks, Twitter said today.

Chitra Singh, the wife of Congress candidate in Jhalrapatan seat Manvendra Singh, has said it would be a tough fight in the home turf of Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje, but expressed confidence that he would emerge victorious. She has been intensively campaigning along with her husband in urban and rural areas of the constituency, which Ms Raje has ...

State minister for Rural Development Dhan Singh Rawat violated the model code of conduct in poll-bound Rajasthan.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today retained 46 ministries as she alloted portfolios of Rural Development and Panchayti Raj, Health and Mines among her Cabinet ministers.

The Congress is in the lead in the panchayat elections in six districts of Rajasthan. Ashok Gehlot-led Congress has won 670 panchayat samiti seats and is likely to form the board in 4 zila parishads.

The ruling Congress was ahead of the BJP in the panchayat polls in six districts of Rajasthan, bagging 670 of the 1,564 panchayat samiti seats and 93 of the 200 zila parishad seats on Saturday.

The ruling Congress in Rajasthan has beaten the BJP in urban local body elections held days after the party suffered a setback in rural polls.

The polling for the first phase of election of the sarpanch and panch in 947 gram panchayats in Rajasthan began on Monday morning.

Sachin Pilot shaves by a haystack, chews on a Neem branch and sleeps on a charpoy in his outreach in one of the most rural regions of Rajasthan, where his Congress party failed to win a single seat in the national election last month.

Gayathri Rathore, the wife of BJP leader and former Olympian Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, claimed today her husband's five years as a member of parliament, representing the Jaipur Rural Lok Sabha seat, had led to "so much development".

The fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election witnesses several high-stake battles between the BJP and opposition parties, with people from 51 Lok Sabha constituencies across seven states casting their votes today to form the next government. The foremost among them is Amethi, where Congress president Rahul Gandhi will try to hold his own against the B...

Ministries in Rajasthan were announced around 2:30 am on Wednesday after Congress president Rahul Gandhi stepped in to resolve a reported tussle between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his deputy Sachin Pilot over key portfolios like home and finance.

In the run-up to the assembly polls in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoram, rural economy emerged as the most talked about election-related topic over the past nine weeks, Twitter said today.

Chitra Singh, the wife of Congress candidate in Jhalrapatan seat Manvendra Singh, has said it would be a tough fight in the home turf of Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje, but expressed confidence that he would emerge victorious. She has been intensively campaigning along with her husband in urban and rural areas of the constituency, which Ms Raje has ...

State minister for Rural Development Dhan Singh Rawat violated the model code of conduct in poll-bound Rajasthan.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today retained 46 ministries as she alloted portfolios of Rural Development and Panchayti Raj, Health and Mines among her Cabinet ministers.