Rajasthan Election 2023: People want to buck anti-incumbency trend, Congress will retain power, says Sachin Pilot
As polling in Rajasthan is underway, Congress leader Sachin Pilot expressed confidence that the Congress will retain power in the state. “I am confident that the Congress will repeat the government,” Pilot told PTI before casting his vote in Jaipur.
He said the Congress focused its election campaign on the issues of the people and claimed that the BJP has been exposed.
Pilot, who is Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s former deputy, said that the electorate wishes to change the anti-incumbency trend.
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“People want to change the tradition (to change government alternatively). The public sentiment is with the Congress,” the Congress leader told ANI.
Replying to a query whether “Bajrang Bali will help Congress in the elections in the state, the Congress leader said, “Who is a bigger warrior than Bajrang Bali? Bajrang Bali will help the people and all of us…”
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Polling in 199 out of the 200 assembly constituencies began at 7 am. Elections in the Karanpur seat of Sriganganagar district have been postponed following the death of the Congress candidate.
A day prior, in a show of unity, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday posted a video on social media platforms in which Pilot is seen making an appeal to people to vote for the Congress. The video post assumed significance as the Pilot-Gehlot power tussle has found frequent mention in the campaigning for the Rajasthan assembly polls with Prime Minister Narendra Modi also referring to it.
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