Elections were held to 119 constituencies in Telangana, India’s newest State, on Friday. The Congress-led Praja Kutami (People’s Front), also comprising the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the Telangana Jana Samithi and the CPI, are taking on the ruling Telangana Rashtriya Samiti (TRS) who are allied with the AIMIM. The BJP is also contesting the elections.
Polling was also held in 199 of the 200 Assembly seats in Rajasthan on Friday. It will decide the fate of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, who is facing a tough challenge from a resurgent Congress, which was decimated in 2013.
An election officer put an indelible ink mark on the finger of former Rajasthan Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot, at a polling booth in Jodhpur.
An elderly woman shows her indelible ink mark after casting her vote for the State Assembly elections, at a polling station in Ajmer on December,07, 2018.
100-year-old Pentala Lalitham being shifted on a wheelchair to a polling station in Khammam. This is the first State election in Telangana since it was formed after bifurcation from Andhra Pradesh.
Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot shows his ink-marked finger after casting vote for the State Assembly elections, in Jaipur on December, 07, 2018.
The Election Commission has deployed several eye-catching awareness material across Hyderabad to get voters to the polling booth.
Women show their identity card as they arrive to cast their votes in village Padampura, near Ajmer in Rajasthan.
A tribal woman showing her indelible ink after casting her vote at Theerdala in Khammam.
A polling officer puts the indelible ink mark on the finger of a physically challenged woman voter in Hyderabad.
Women show the indelible ink mark on their index fingers after casting votes in Hyderabad.
At a polling booth in Hyderabad.
A polling officer puts the indelible ink mark on the finger of a voter in Hyderabad.
Women stand in a queue to cast their votes in Hyderabad.
People waiting to cast their votes at a polling booth in Khammam,.
A disabled man being brought to cast his vote at a polling booth in Khammam.
