Rajasthan Lok Sabha Election 2024: Home voting for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan is all set to begin today. More than 58,000 voters in the poll-bound state have opted for home voting so far. In the first phase of general elections, 35,542 people including 26,371 senior citizens and 9,171 persons with disabilities have registered for home voting, the state’s Chief Electoral Officer Praveen Gupta said last week.
The Election Commission introduced a 'vote-from-home' facility for senior citizens aged 80 years and above and Persons with Disabilities (PwD). This is the first time when such an initiative has been taken in place. Special polling teams have been formed to conduct home voting. These teams will reach the residences of registered home voters in the presence of political parties and their candidates to conduct voting through postal ballots.
Home Voting In 2023 Rajasthan Assembly Elections
In the 2023 Rajasthan Assembly elections, home voting was successfully carried out with 99 per cent of registered voters casting ballots, including 49,650 senior citizens (over 80) and 11,774 people with disabilities, according to the chief electoral officer. Gupta stated that the home voting facility is an option available to senior citizens (over 85) and people with disabilities (over 40 per cent).
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Home voting in the second phase will take place from April 14 to 21. The home voting facility is an option available to senior citizens and persons with disabilities exceeding 40 per cent. Under this initiative, officials will go door-to-door and share this information with the eligible voters, Gupta said.
Rajasthan Lok Sabha Election 2024
The general elections in Rajasthan will be held in two phases on April 19 and 26. Ganganagar, Bikaner, Churu, Jhunjhunu, Sikar, Jaipur Rural, Jaipur, Alwar, Bharatpur, Karauli-Dholpur, Dausa and Nagaur are 12 lok sabha constituencies where voting will be held in the first phase. The remaining 13 seats of Tonk-Sawai Madhopur, Ajmer, Pali, Jodhpur, Barmer, Jalore, Udaipur, Banswara, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Kota and Jhalawar-Baran will go to polls in the second phase.
Bypolls in the Bagidora assembly constituency under the Banswara Lok Sabha constituency will also be conducted in the second phase. The seat fell vacant after Congress MLA Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya joined the BJP in February. Malviya is contesting from Banswara as a BJP candidate. Congress has yet to declare a candidate for this seat.
(With PTI Inputs)