New Delhi: Rajasthan Congress president Sachin Pilot on Sunday expressed confidence of his party's win in high-stakes Dholpur assembly by-election, saying people have voted against the ruling BJP and for the alternative in Congress.
Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has rendered the election a high profile by campaigning there vigorously for days besides getting most of her ministers to canvass intensively in her home turf.
Pilot too matched her by holding over 200 public meetings and spending over 18 days in the backward region as a win for the Congress will be a big boost to the opposition party ahead of the state assembly polls later next year.
A win in the by-poll will be a big boost to him, observers say.
"I am confident of a Congress win in the election. People have voted for strengthening the alternative in the Congress and against the BJP government," he said.
The campaigning was marred by trading of allegations between the two parties with the opposition party repeatedly going to the Election Commission against the alleged misuse of the official machinery by the state government.
The EC had ordered the transfer of Kushwaha from Dholpur Jail to Ganganagar after the Congress complained that he was virtually canvassing for the BJP from jail.
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