Meena, Chandrabhan, Zakia file nominations in Rajasthan

Jaipur, Nov 14 (UNI) Tribal Development Minister Nand Lal Meena (BJP-Pratapgarh), AICC Secretary Harendra Mirdha,Congress state Vice Presisdent Dr Chandrabhan (Malpura), former Minister Zakia Inam(Congress-Tonk) were among 145 candidates who today entered the fray for the December 4 Assembly elections in Rajasthan from different constituencies.

With this, total number of contestants who have entered the fray since November 10, has gone up to 355 even as data from some of the 200 Assembly segments was yet to be received, an Election Office spokesman said.

As per the schedule announced by the Commission, the filing of nominations will continue till November 17, scrutiny will be done on November 18 and withdrawals can be made by November 20.

The polling in all the 200 assembly constituencies will be held on December 4 and counting will be done on December 8, the Spokesman said.

Around 3.62 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise even as the process of continuous revision of electoral rolls was on. Around 42,200 polling booths were being set up for the polling.

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