Congress nominee C P Joshi is pitted against the Olympic medal winner Rajyvardhan Singh Rathore from Jaipur-rural seat. Joshi is a sitting MP from Bhilwara.
PCC president and Union Minister Sachin Pilot, who is contesting from Ajmer, would be facing a tough battle against BJP Minister Sanwarlal Jat. BJP had won all the seats under this parliamentary constituency in the Assembly polls in December last.
In Jhalawar, Dushyant Singh, son of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and a sitting MP, is pitted against Congress' Pramod Jain Bhaya.
There are 17 women contestants including Congress' sitting MPs Chandresh Kumari from Jodhpur, Girija Vyas from Chittorgarh and Jyoti Mirdha from Nagaur and new entrants Rajbala Ola from Jhunjhunu, Resham Valviya from Banswara and BJP's Santosh Ahlawat from Jhunjhunu seats. Over 38,000 state government employees have been deployed for election duty.
The remaining five wil go to polls on April 24.
Barmer parliamentary constituency, one of the world's largest districts with sparsely populated villages, will have four mobile polling booths for voters.
About 242 voters are very far from the permanent polling stations for which the mobile units are deployed, the spokesman said.
Every polling booth in the state will have 20 central and state police personnel. As per police records, altogether 3,031 hamlets have been identified as vulnerable. 11,379 people were identified as probable source of trouble and preventive action was taken against 10,353. Former Congress stalwart Buta Singh will be facing BJP's sitting MP Devji Patel and Congress' Udailal on Jalore LS seat. Expelled BJP member Subhash Meharia is in a triangular contest with BJP's Sumedhanand and Congress' P S Jat on Sikar LS seat.
In last 2009 Lok Sabha polls, Congress had won 20 out of 25 seats, while the BJP bagged four and independent one.
