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Rajasthan
By Our Special Correspondent
JAIPUR, JAN. 24. Polling for the by-election in the Luni Assembly constituency of Jodhpur district passed off peacefully today. An unprecedented 71 per cent polling was recorded in the constituency which had witnessed a fortnight's rigorous campaign involving stalwarts of both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress, who included the Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje, and the Union Ministers, Natwar Singh and Sis Ram Ola. A total of six candidates including the nominees of the BJP, the Congress, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Rajasthan Samajik Nyaya Manch, besides two Independents are in the fray. The by-election was necessitated by the death of the former Minister, Ram Singh Vishnoi, of the Congress. The Congress has nominated the deceased leader's son, Malkhan Singh. Both the Congress and the BJP had claimed victory from the seat at the end of the election campaign on Saturday last. However, after the polling the Congress leadership reiterated its claim on victory. In a statement here, the Pradesh Congress Committee president, Narain Singh, expressed his gratitude to the 1.65 lakh strong electorate of Luni for "their support''. The party nominee would win from the seat with a record margin, he claimed. The Congress in-charge of the Luni by-election, Rajendra Choudhary, talking on phone from Jodhpur today charged the State Government of "misusing'' the official machinery to woo voters and terrorize the Congress workers. "The police has been used to intimidate the Congress workers,'' he charged. Mr.Choudhary also charged that the State Ministers violated the model election code on Sunday by moving on a cavalcade of 10 vehicles, some of them fitted with red lights. "I myself saw them at Jalkha village in Luni constituency on Sunday,'' he said.
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