Chief minister Vasundhara Raje arrived at a polling station in Jhalawar to exercise her franchise on Friday as voting began in Rajasthan. Over 2,000 candidates are in the fray. Votes will be cast at 51,687 polling booths, 259 of them managed exclusively by women officials and security personnel. It is a seen as a straight fight between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress for about 130 seats.