As per report the daily wage laborer Titar Singh, who contested from Karanpur assembly seat in Rajasthan, got 1223 votes this time and stood fourth. Teetar Singh, belonging to the Dalit community, has come into limelight in the last few decades by contesting every election from Sarpanch to mla and MP. Overall he has contested more than thirty elections. Actually, the result of Karanpur assembly seat was declared on Monday. This seat once again went to congress from where its candidate Rupinder Singh Kunnar won. According to the data of the election Department, Titar Singh got a total of 1223 votes. He got 653 votes in the 2018 assembly elections. Titar Singh got 938 votes in the 2008 assembly elections, 427 votes in the 2013 elections and 653 votes in the 2018 assembly elections.
Apart from the winner and runner-up on this seat, only aam aadmi party candidate Pirathipal Singh has got more than one thousand votes. Singh got 11940 votes. Apart from this, 1034 votes went to the account of 'NOTA'. Titar Singh, who lives in '25 F', a small village in Karanpur assembly constituency of Rajasthan, got passionate about contesting elections in the seventies when he was young and many people like him were deprived of land allotment in canal areas. Titar Singh says that till now he has contested ten elections of Lok Sabha, ten of assembly, four of Zilla Parishad Director, four of Sarpanchi and four of Ward Member. According to the affidavit filed along with the nomination papers, at present his age is 78 years.
Although Titar Singh has come of age while contesting elections, this time a video of him went viral on social media in which he was going with his wife to file nomination. Since then the discussion about him continued in the media. Voting was held on november 25 for 199 out of 200 assembly seats in the state. Its result was declared on december 3. In this, bjp got 115 seats and congress 69 seats. The election on Karanpur seat was postponed due to the death of congress candidate and then mla Gurmeet Singh Kunnar.
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