A total of 5,26,90,146 voters will decide the fate of 1,875 candidates, including 183 female contestants, at a total of 51,507 polling stations in the assembly constituencies.
Several bigwig leaders such as Congress veteran and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, his party colleague Sachin Pilot, and BJP's Vasundhara Raje, among others, have cast their votes.
Addressing a public meeting in Dungarpur district, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said democracy has given the people of Rajasthan an opportunity to end the misrule of the Congress government and they should not let this opportunity go
Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue, he said earlier the PM used to say he is from OBC but the day he (Gandhi) raised the demand of caste census, Modi started saying there is only once caste in India- the poor.