EVM Ballot Unit Found On Rajasthan Highway, Fans Tampering Worries

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EVM was found on the highway number 27 near Mugawali village
Two officials have been suspended on grounds of negligence
Counting of votes will be held on December 11

An Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) was found lying on a road in Shahabad area of Kishanganj Assembly Constituency in Baran district of Rajasthan on Friday.

After the voting in Rajasthan, the EVM was found lying unclaimed on the highway number 27 near Mugawali village in Baran district. And after the villagers reported about the same, the police took possession of the machine.

A seal on the EVM revealed that the machine was used during the election.

Two officials, Abdul Rafeek and Naval Singh Patwari, have been suspended on the grounds of negligence, according to news agency ANI.

A turnout of 72.7% was recorded in Rajasthan in Friday’s polling.

Around 52,000 polling booths, including at least one all-women booth in each constituency, were set up. More than 2 lakh EVMs and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines were used for the polling.

In the 200-member Rajasthan Assembly, over 2,000 candidates are fighting for 199 assembly seats.

Counting of votes for the Rajasthan assembly election will be held on December 11.

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Rajasthan assembly Polls 2018: Amit Shah to interact with youths on November 21 in Jaipur

The event will be held at Tagore School auditorium in Jaipur where nearly 4,000 youths will participate. The event will be live streamed and Shah will take questions from youths present there and also from those at six other locations — Bharatpur, Udaipur, Kota, Jodhpur, Ajmer and Bikaner.

BJP president Amit Shah will hold talks with youths of poll-bound Rajasthan on November 21 in Jaipur, Union minister Rajyavardhan Rathore said on Sunday.

The main event will be held at Tagore School auditorium in Jaipur where nearly 4,000 youths will participate. The event will be live streamed and Shah will take questions from youths present there and also from those at six other locations — Bharatpur, Udaipur, Kota, Jodhpur, Ajmer and Bikaner, Rathore said at a press conference in Jaipur.

Apart from these places, town hall meetings will be held in other 200 locations across the state where youths will be present, Rathore said, adding questions from youths who will be present at these locations will be registered beforehand and they will not be able to ask question during the programme.

“India is emerging as a strong nation due to the vision and energy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Youths understand this. Social media has brought awareness among people on issues, be it political or any other. BJP has always has held dialogues with youths and therefore, the party present is going to communicate with the state’s youths on November 21,” he said.

Rathore said that questions can be asked through social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Assembly polls in Rajasthan will be held on December 7.

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Rajasthan elections: Congress announces 10 new names in 3rd List Of Candidates

On Saturday, the Congress released its second list of 32 candidates, pitting Manvendra Singh, son of BJP veteran and former Union Minister Jaswant Singh, against Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje in her traditional Jhalrapatan seat.

The Congress on Sunday released its third list of candidates for 13 constituencies, leaving five seats to its allies in the December 7 Rajasthan Assembly polls.

Among the 13, three candidates have been named as replacements.

B.D. Kalia has been fielded from Bikaner West, replacing Yashpal Gehlot who will now contest from Bikaner East. The party had earlier named Kanhaiyalal Jhawar in Bikaner East.

In Keshoraipatan, C.L. Premi has been replaced by Rakesh Boyat.

The Congress left the seats of Bali to the Nationalist Congress Party, Mundawar and Kushalgarh to the Loktantrik Janata Dal and Bharatpur and Malpura for Rashtriya Lok Dal.

On Saturday, the Congress released its second list of 32 candidates, pitting Manvendra Singh, son of BJP veteran and former Union Minister Jaswant Singh, against Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje in her traditional Jhalrapatan seat.

The Congress, in its first list of 152 candidates released on November 16, fielded both its Chief Ministerial aspirants – Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot.

While the two-time Chief Minister Gehlot is contesting from his traditional Sardarpura seat, Mr Pilot is in the fray from Tonk.

The party has also fielded former Union Ministers C.P. Joshi and Girija Vyas for the Nathdwara and Udaipur Assembly seats respectively.

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No Muslim among 162 BJP candidates in Rajasthan Polls : Is party back to Hindutva?

Of the 162 BJP candidates, announced so far in two instalments for the 200-member Rajasthan Assembly polling for which is due on December 7, one absence the observers have marked is of any Muslim candidate, strengthening the perception that the party is playing the Hindutva card.

Mahesh Sharma, Union Minister of State for Tourism and Culture, who comes from Alwar, strongly denies the Hindutva slant, yet there are others in the party who say the BJP knows it well that Muslims in Rajasthan don’t constitute a vote bank.

One of the sitting MLAs, Habibur Rehman from Nagaur, on Wednesday joined the Congress when he failed to find his name in the list released on Sunday.

Rahman said the BJP is playing the Hindutva card in Rajasthan.

Another state minister Yunus Khan too failed to find his name. But, unlike Rehman, Khan has expressed his loyalty to the party.

Soon after the BJP released its first list of candidates, general secretary of BJP’s Minority cell M Sadiq had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing his concern as to how party members would reach out to the community if Muslims don’t get the party nomination.

The BJP in 2013 had fielded four Muslim candidates. Two of them were elected: Habibur Rehman from Nagaur seat and Yunus Khan from Deedwana.

“The BJP is a democratic party unlike the Congress where a board decides a candidate. The candidates are selected keeping in mind a variety of factors, including candidates’ strengths,” said Mahesh Sharma.

Avinash Rai Khanna, BJP’s Rajasthan election in-charge, said party candidates are shortlisted after ‘raishumari’ in consultation with grassroots workers as well as top leaders. He said the final BJP list is yet to come and until then no conclusion should be drawn on the composition of candidates based on caste and religion.

Rajasthan Congress vice-president Archana Sharma said, “The BJP could not perform in the state. Now they are trying to polarise the situation. But this won’t work… Rajasthan is no Uttar Pradesh.”

Salawat Khan, General Secretary, BJP Minority Morcha, said in the last elections, the party gave four tickets to Muslims. “So far we have not been given any party nomination. We are still hopeful that the party would consider candidates from the community,” he said.

In 2013 polls, the BJP had swept 163 of 200 assembly seats in Rajasthan.

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AAP declares manifesto for upcoming Rajasthan elections

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AAP declared its manifesto today in Jaipur
The rally was held at Ramlila Maidan
The manifesto was announced in the presence of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) declared its manifesto for the upcoming Rajasthan elections at a rally in Jaipur today.

The party had sought and received permission to hold the rally at the Ramlila Maidan.

The manifesto was announced in the presence of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who held his first election rally in Rajasthan.

The Aam Aadmi Party has already announced that it will contest on all 200 assembly seats during the upcoming polls in Rajasthan.

Media in-charge for AAP Gopal Sharma had earlier said, “Arvind Kejriwal will hold his election rally at the Ramleela Maidan in Jaipur on October 28. He will hold seven-eight rallies in Rajasthan in the run-up to the polls.”

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, apart from other known members, will be campaigning in Rajasthan.

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Sitting BJP Lawmakers In Rajasthan Fear Party May Drop Them

No list is out yet in Rajasthan, where assembly elections will be held after the polling in Chhattisgarh, but party leaders say there is apprehension among its MLAs over failing to secure a renomination.

After the BJP denied tickets to several sitting MLAs in the first list of candidates for the Chhattisgarh assembly polls, party legislators in Rajasthan are keeping their fingers crossed.

No list is out yet in Rajasthan, where assembly elections will be held after the polling in Chhattisgarh, but party leaders say there is apprehension among its MLAs over failing to secure a renomination.

This comes amid speculation that about 80 BJP MLAs in Rajasthan will be denied the ticket this time as the party fights anti-incumbency and faces a stiffer challenge from the Congress in the December 7 elections, as indicated by some opinion polls.

The current 200-member Assembly has 163 BJP MLAs.

Party leaders said some sitting MLAs are trying to seek tickets for their family members after their poor performance in the bypolls for the parliamentary seats of Ajmer and Alwar and the Mandalgarh assembly seat.

Several party MLAs have indicated to the state leadership that want to change their constituency this time.

But the party may not allow this.

“Let the list of candidates be announced,” BJP’s Rajasthan election in-charge Prakash Javadekar recently told reporters. “We might replace candidates but the candidates will not be allowed to change seats.”

In the run-up to the elections, party leaders including Mr Javadekar, BJP state in-charge Avinash Rai Khanna and state BJP president Madan Lal Saini have also made clear that winnability would be the key criterion for picking candidates.

Party leaders said they are working on how to deal with possible protests by MLAs who are denied tickets and their supporters.

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Arvind Kejriwal’s Jaipur rally to kickstart AAP campaign in Rajasthan

Arvind Kejriwal will hold an election rally in Jaipur on October 28
AAP has already announced that it will contest on all 200 assembly seats
Jaipur rally will kickstart AAP’s Rajasthan campaign

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor and Delhi Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal will be holding his first election rally in Rajasthan on October 28. The AAP has already announced that it will contest on all 200 assembly seats during the upcoming polls in Rajasthan.

As per Gopal Sharma, Media In-charge for AAP, “Arvind Kejriwal will hold his election rally at the Ramleela Maidan in Jaipur on October 28. He will hold 7 – 8 rallies in Rajasthan in the run-up to the polls.”

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, apart from other known faces of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), will be campaigning for the party for the upcoming Assembly elections in Rajasthan.

“They are going to campaign very intensively in Rajasthan.”, Deepak Vajpai, AAP in-charge for Rajasthan.

Assembly elections in Rajasthan, in the past, have mainly been two – sided contests with the BJP and the Congress garnering most of the seats. But the AAP, which plans to contest on all the seats in the upcoming Assembly elections in Rajasthan, sounded confident of its chances.

So far, the AAP has released six lists. Names of candidates for 62 seats have already been announced.

“We will be contesting on all 200 seats.” senior AAP leader from Rajasthan, Devendra Shastri mentioned, while speaking with India Today.

As per AAP, party supporters from across the state will participate in Arvind Kejriwal’s rally to be held in Jaipur on October 28. Party leaders visited Bharatpur to take stock of preparations vis-a-vis the upcoming Assembly polls and to ask party workers for maximum participation on October 28.

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Rajasthan : Six new Zika cases, total 123

Six more people tested positive for Zika virus in Rajasthan’s Jaipur district Sunday, taking the total number of such cases to 123, a government official said.

Of the 123 patients, around 105 have recovered after treatment, he said.

The state health department also formed a five-member committee on Saturday to investigate, examine and track Zika virus disease in pregnant patients of first trimester. The committee will submit the report to the director public health from time to time, an order said. Most of the cases which have been reported are from Shastri Nagar area here where fogging and other anti-larvae activities are being carried out to prevent the spread of the virus.

The virus, transmitted through the aedes aegypti mosquito, causes fever, skin rashes, conjunctivitis, muscle and joint pain. It is harmful to pregnant women, as it can lead to microcephaly, a condition in which a baby’s head is significantly smaller in newborns. In India, the first outbreak was reported in Ahmedabad in January 2017 and the second in Tamil Nadu’s Krishnagiri district in July that year. Both these outbreaks were successfully contained through intensive surveillance and vector management.

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Medical services flatline in Rajasthan

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On Friday, more than 5,000 medical shops in Jaipur and around 45,000 medical shops in Rajasthan remained closed over the union government’s decision to regularize online pharmacies.

The medical shops, including the wholesale shops that abound in the Film Colony and those that operate outside the Sawai Man Singh Hospital, the largest operating public sector hospital in state, remained closed. The support for the call for nationwide shutdown in other districts was more or less the same, with most chemists shutting down their outlets on Friday. An almost total shutdown was reported from Kota and Jodhpur despite government’s call to private hospitals to keep their drug stores open.

“All the shops across the state remained closed today, business worth Rs 75-100 crore was affected in a single day due to the strike,” informed Ajay Agarwal, spokesperson of Rajasthan Chemist Association.

As per a rough estimate trade worth Rs 10-12 crore went down the drain in Jaipur due to closure of more than 5,000 shops.The result was that patients were seen going from one market to another in search of medicines.

The situation of patients who were admitted to the hospital did not suffer much as hospitals had stocked medicines after the state health department swung into action to lessen the impact of the bandh and tackle the shortfall of medicines for in-patient departments. However, the patients of OPD were seen carrying the prescription from the doctor and were looking for outlets that could provide them the said medicines.

There was some relief to the pensioners who could get a limited supply of medicines from the medical stores run by the cooperative department. But largely the patients felt helpless as the shops remained closed throughout the day.

The branded medical stores had already sent advance text messages to their customers informing them about the strike and to arrange for emergency medicines in advance.

The state government had made arrangements to make sure that medicines were available in abundance at all Community Health Centers, Primary Health Centers, District Hospitals, Sub Centers, Hospitals associated to Medical Colleges, PM Jan Aushadhi Kendra, Life Line Fluid Stores and Co operative medical stores across the state.

The Threat

The traditional medical shops are seeing the online pharmacy business as a threat and want that the provisions of online pharmacy should not be made legal. There are a large number of people who have started buying medicines from online pharmacy platforms.
They say that it’s against rules of Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1945 and the proposed set of provisions for online retailers go against interest of traditional shops.

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