The BJP has been accusing Gehlot of indulging in appeasement, apart from lashing out at him by raising governance issues such as the cases of paper leaks and increase in rape cases.
The seat has remained a Congress stronghold as the party has won eight state assembly polls from the seat since 1967 while the Bharatiya Janata Party bagged it twice
With significant Jat and Dalit vote in state, Hanuman Beniwal's RLP and Chandra Shekhar Azad's ASP could together influence results in more than 40 seats
The Opposition parties cited rising incidents of rapes in Jodhpur and Karauli, and day-light murder of gangster Kuldeep Jagheena in running roadways bus recently.
The Rajasthan assembly's Budget session began on Monday amid an Opposition protest over incidents of paper leaks, as Speaker CP Joshi suspended three agitating Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) MLAs for the day and ordered them to be marshalled out.Due to the rukus of BJP MLAs, Governor Kalaj Mishra could not complete his address.