[Marxistindia] Rajasthan Results -- from INN

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Mon Dec 8 18:20:11 IST 2008


>From India News network

New Delhi, Dec. 8: The CPI(M) has improved upon its tally this time around in the Rajasthan Assembly elections. For the first time the Party has won three assembly seats. The Party won the Dhod, Anupgarh and Danta Ramgarh  assembly seats. It has won the Dhod assembly seat for the fourth time in a row. Following the delimitation of constituencies, Dhod had become a reserved (SC) seat this time. Party Central Committee member, Amra Ram who had been winning this seat for the past three consecutive times had to shift to the neighbouring seat of Danta Ramgarh where he won by a margin of around 5,100 votes. Dhod was won by a margin of 3,100 votes by Pema Ram while in Anup Garh the Party's candidate Pawan Duggal secured 48,467 votes against 26,857 secured by the Congress and 25,065 of the BJP. 

 

Both Dodh and Danta Ramgarh are in the district of Sikar. In the other seats the Party contested in Sikar district the Party polled 28,000 in Laxman Garh, 17,500 in Sree Madhopur, 22,000 in Khandela and 22,500 in Sikar seat. In neighbouring Ganganagar district the Party won the Anupgarh seat. In the same district the party polled 23,000 votes in Sadul Shahar.

 

In the other seats the Party polled 14,523 in Jhadol, 16,280 in Lunkaransar, 9,700 in Sangaria, 9,205 in Jhunjhunu, 8,250 in Makrana, 8,104 in Dungarpur, 7,500 in Degana, 7,646 in Dungargarh, 4,147 in Khajuwala, around 3000 in Khinvsan, 2,742 in Jhotwara, 2126 in Tonk, around 3000 in Ratan Garh, 1,732 in Vidhyadhar Nagar and 1600 in Udaipurvati. Untill the filing of this report, data is available for 24 out of the 34 seats the Party had contested in the state. 

 

The Party had been unable to win a second seat in the assembly until now and this time around the state committee went to the elections with the slogan of "Ek Se Anek" (from one to many). 

 

It may be recalled that the Party had led a militant peasants struggle in these districts on the question of release of water from the Indira Gandhi canal and other issues affecting the peasantry. Several people were killed in police firing and thousands were jailed.

 

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