Congress on October 18 held Central Election Committee meeting at the AICC headquarters in Delhi. The meeting was held to finalise candidates for the upcoming Rajasthan Assembly elections and remaining candidates for Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. Top leaders of the party, including Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, and KC Venugopal, attended the meeting chaired by Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge. Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, members of CEC and screening committee members of the respective states also attended the meeting. According to the Election Commission of India, voting for all 40 assembly seats in Mizoram will take place on November 7 along with the first phase of polling for 20 seats in Chhattisgarh. The remaining 70 seats in Chhattisgarh will go to polls on November 17 alongside all 230 seats in Madhya Pradesh. Voting for all 200 assembly seats in Rajasthan will take place on November 23, while the 119-member Telangana Assembly will be the last to go to polls on November 30. Counting of votes for all five states will take place on December 3.