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  "type": "article",
  "title": "Campaign Noise Falls Silent Across Rajasthan Ahead of Two-Phase Civic Body Voting",
  "summary": "Campaigning across Rajasthan's civic body elections will fall silent 48 hours before each phase of voting, with polling set for September 9 and September 11 and results due on September 14.",
  "content": "The election campaign trail across Rajasthan's municipal wards is winding down, and in the hours before voters step into the booth, the loudspeakers, street rallies and door-to-door canvassing that filled the state for weeks are set to fall silent. What follows next rests entirely with the voter, alone with a ballot and a decision.\n\nTwo Phases, One Counting Day\nRajasthan is choosing councillors for 309 urban local bodies through this election, spanning a total of 10,245 wards across the state. Because of the scale involved, the polls are being conducted in two separate phases. The first phase of voting will be held on September 9, and the second phase follows on September 11. On both days, polling booths will remain open from 7 am to 6 pm. Once voting closes in both phases, all ballots will be counted together on September 14, the day that will finally reveal the outcome for every single candidate in the fray.\n\nPhase One: Alwar, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Bhilwara and Jaipur District\nThe first phase, scheduled for September 9, will decide 5,425 wards spread across 162 urban local bodies. This phase includes the districts of Alwar, Bharatpur, Bikaner and Bhilwara, along with 18 local bodies located within Jaipur district itself. As per Election Commission rules, campaigning has to stop exactly 48 hours before polling begins in any area, which means all election campaigning in these first-phase constituencies will come to a complete halt by 6 pm on September 7. The same cut-off point also brings a dry day into force, under which the sale and distribution of liquor will remain entirely banned from 6 pm on September 7 right through to 6 pm on September 9.\n\nPhase Two: Jaipur, Jodhpur and the State's Biggest Municipal Corporations\nThe second phase, on September 11, is the bigger and more closely watched of the two, covering 4,820 wards across 147 urban local bodies. This is the phase that includes some of Rajasthan's most prominent municipal corporations, namely Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Ajmer, Udaipur and Pali. In the state capital itself, voting in all 150 wards of Jaipur will take place on September 11, which means campaigning in Jaipur city must stop by 6 pm on September 9, two days earlier. The same strict 48-hour silence period and dry-day restrictions that apply to phase one will be enforced with equal rigour here.\n\nWhat Cannot Happen During the 48-Hour Silence\nThe 48 hours that follow the end of campaigning are treated as the most sensitive and closely monitored window of the entire election process. During this period, no public meeting, rally or procession of any kind is permitted to be organised anywhere in the constituency. Candidates and parties are also barred from using loudspeakers or any other means of mass contact to reach voters. In effect, every public activity that could sway a voter's decision, whether directly or indirectly, has to come to a complete stop until polling is over.\n\nThe Real Verdict Now Belongs to the Voter\nOnce the campaign noise dies down, every promise, claim and counter-claim that candidates made over the past several days faces its real test, not from a stage but inside the privacy of a voter's own mind. The platforms that once echoed with leaders' speeches go quiet, and no political party is left with any fresh move to win over the electorate before the polls open. In this enforced silence, each voter alone decides whom to trust with their vote, whom to make their representative, and whom to hold accountable for the development of their own ward.\n\nWith the high-voltage campaigning for Rajasthan's civic body elections now approaching its final hours, the contest has effectively passed out of the candidates' hands and into the voters'. It is only after the counting of votes on September 14 that it will become clear whose strategy actually worked, and which candidates the public has sent back home.\n\nWhat this means for you\nFor anyone living inside Rajasthan's municipal limits, the next few days decide who controls ward-level development funds and civic services for the coming term.\n\n• Across India: Rajasthan's two-phase civic model, with a strict 48-hour campaign silence and a matching liquor ban, mirrors the standard code most state election commissions across India follow before any municipal or panchayat vote, so residents elsewhere can expect the same pre-poll quiet period and dry day before their own local elections.\n• In Jaipur and Rajasthan: Voters in Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Ajmer, Udaipur and Pali must cast their ballots on September 11, while those in Alwar, Bharatpur, Bikaner and Bhilwara vote on September 9, so residents need to check their own ward's phase and reach their booth between 7 am and 6 pm on the correct date.\n• Liquor sale halt: Shops in phase-one areas cannot sell alcohol from 6 pm on September 7 to 6 pm on September 9, and Jaipur's dry day runs from September 9 evening to September 11 evening, so residents planning purchases or events should stock up in advance.\n• Result timeline: Counting for both phases happens together on September 14, so candidates and residents will not know any ward's outcome until that date regardless of which phase they voted in.\n\nQuestions & Answers\n\n1. When will voting take place in Rajasthan's civic body elections?\nVoting happens in two phases, September 9 for the first phase and September 11 for the second.\n\n2. What time do polling booths open and close?\nBooths are open from 7 am to 6 pm on both polling days.\n\n3. When will the counting of votes happen?\nCounting for both phases takes place on September 14.\n\n4. Which areas vote in the first phase?\nThe first phase covers 162 urban bodies and 5,425 wards, including Alwar, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Bhilwara and 18 local bodies in Jaipur district.\n\n5. Which major cities vote in the second phase?\nThe second phase covers 147 urban bodies and 4,820 wards, including the municipal corporations of Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Ajmer, Udaipur and Pali.\n\n6. When does campaigning stop in Jaipur city?\nSince all 150 wards of Jaipur vote on September 11, campaigning there ends by 6 pm on September 9.\n\n7. What is banned during the 48-hour silence period?\nNo public meetings, rallies, processions or loudspeaker campaigning are allowed, and no activity that could directly or indirectly influence voters is permitted.\n\n8. What is a dry day and when does it apply?\nIt is a period when liquor sale and distribution is completely banned, running from 6 pm two days before voting until 6 pm on polling day in each phase's areas.",
  "url": "https://trendkia.com/en/rajasthan/rajasthan-men-votinga-se-pahale-thamega-shora-janie-kisa-dina-bnda-hoga-chunava-prachara-aura-kaba-parenge-vota-28589",
  "category": "Rajasthan",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-06",
  "tags": [
    "Rajasthan civic elections",
    "Nagar Nikay Chunav",
    "Jaipur municipal corporation",
    "election campaign silence",
    "dry day",
    "counting September 14"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "site": "TrendKia"
}