Rajasthan Panchayat Elections: Nominations Surge on Last Two Days

The last two days of nominations for the panchayat elections in Rajasthan saw a huge rush of candidates. The pace of nominations was slow for the first two days in the zila parishad and panchayat samiti elections, but a large number of nominations were filed on the third and fourth days. 2,629 candidates are in the fray for 586 zila parishad seats, while 7,890 candidates have filed nominations for 1,806 seats in 104 panchayat samitis. As per the data on the four days of nominations - October 8, 9, 12 and 13 - a total of 2,795 nominations were filed for the zila parishad elections.