The first list of 131 candidates for the upcoming polls in Rajasthan was released by the Bhartiya Janata Party on Sunday where the Union Minister and party leader JP Nadda announced the names after a meeting of the BJP election committee.
As per the list, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje will contest from Jhalrapatan assembly constituency from where she has been contesting since 2003.
Kailash Meghwal, the speaker in the outgoing Rajasthan assembly has been shifted from Bhilwara district's Shahpura constituency to Jhunjhun's Pilani constituency.
The BJP has fielded 25 new faces and 85 sitting MLAs for the assembly polls.
Apart from this, 12 female candidates, 32 young candidates, 17 candidates from Schedule Caste category, 19 from Schedule Tribe category have also made it to the first list.
Other ministers who got the tickets are Gulab Chand Kataria, Gajendra Singh Khimsar, Vasudev Devnani, Anita Bhadel, Kiran Maheshwari, Arun Chaturvedi, Ram Pratap, Krishnendra Kaur Deepa, and Rajendra Rathore.
The last assembly polls in the state saw BJP win 163 of the 200 assembly seats.
Polls in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana will be held between November 12 and December 7. Counting of votes will be taken up together in all the five states on December 11.
ANI
