Rajasthan: Election to Karanpur assembly seat to be held on Jan 5, counting Jan 8

In the November 25 Rajasthan Assembly Election, Karanpur segment did not go to poll due to the demise of sitting MLA Kooner. It will go to poll on January 5 and the counting will be taken up on January 8, sources said.

Jaipur (Rajasthan): Following the demise of the sitting MLA, the election to the Karanpur assembly segment was not held on November 25. Now, the Election Commission is making arrangements to hold the election for the Karanpur segment on January 5 and the counting will be taken up on January 8.

The Rajasthan Assembly Election 2023 took place on November 25 for 199 out of the 200 seats in the State. Karanpur segment poll was postponed after its MLA Gurmeet Singh Kooner, who was a Congress leader, breathed his last just a week before the election. The magic figure in Rajasthan Assembly is 101 and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had emerged victorious, trouncing Congress.

Nomination submission will start from December 12 and the last date of filling nomination is December 19. Scrutiny will be held on December 20 and the names can be withdrawn by December 22.

Voting in Rajasthan's Karanpur constituency was adjourned on November 15 because of the death of Congress candidate Gurmeet Singh Koonar, who was also the sitting MLA.

Citing Section 52 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, an EC functionary had earlier explained that if a candidate fielded dies before the poll, then the returning officers adjourn the poll on that seat to a date to be notified later. Polling to 199 of the 200 Assembly seats in Rajasthan was held on November 25. But polling in the Karanpur seat was adjourned.

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