With only three weeks left for the Rajasthan Assembly election, the Congress on Saturday, November 4 released its sixth list of 23 candidates. The party left the Bharatpur seat for RLD.
The Congress has fielded Abhimanyu Poonia from Sangaria Assembly seat, Ajeet Beniwal from Bhadra, and Virendra Singh from Danta Ramgarh. The party has named Saroj Choudhary from Ahore, Naimuddin Guddu from Ladpura, Shahjad Khan from Soorsagar, and Meena Kanwar from Sherharh Assembly seats. With 23 seats, the Congress has now declared candidates for 179 seats, including one for RLD.
On October 31, the Congress released its fourth list of 56 candidates and then in the fifth list it announced five candidates on the same day. On October 26, the party had named 19 candidates in its third list.
The Congress earlier released two lists for Rajasthan with 33 and 43 candidates respectively on October 21 and 22.
Polling for the 200 member Rajasthan Assembly is scheduled for November 25 and counting of votes will take place on December 3.
The Congress is eyeing for a second consecutive term in Rajasthan and has launched several pro-people schemes in the state and also announced seven guarantees.