New Delhi: The publicity guns fall silent today (Nov 29) capping weeks of bitter war of words even as political parties make a frantic door-to-door campaign to woo an estimated nine crore voters in Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh for the December 1 Assembly polls.

Congress, seeking to retain power in all the four States, has brought up corruption as its main poll plank in the wake of cash-on-camera scam involving former Union Minister Dilip Singh Judeo but its main rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) responded by questioning the quality of governance by Congress Governments there.

Elaborate arrangements have been made to conduct free and fair polls in the four States whose outcome may set off fresh political alignments ahead of the next Lok Sabha elections.

An estimated 3.78 crore voters are expected to choose their representatives for the 230-strong Madhya Pradesh Assembly from among 2171 candidates while nearly 3.40 crore electorate in Rajasthan are likely to cast votes for the 200-member House for which 1541 hopefuls are in fray. There are 819 contestants for the 90 Assembly seats in Chhattisgarh which have an estimated 1.35 crore voters and in Delhi over eight million voters are to select 70 members from amidst 817 nominees.

PTI