Delhi Elections
Delhi Assembly Election 2020: Voting begins at 8 am on February 8, results on February 11
The Delhi Assembly Election 2020 will take place in a single phase with voting in all 70 constituencies on February 8. The counting of the votes polled for the 70 Assembly constituencies will begin from 8 am on February 11.
The voting for the Delhi Assembly Election 2020 will be held on February 8, Saturday, while the results of same would be declared on February 11.
The election to Delhi Legislative Assembly will take place in a single phase with voting in all 70 constituencies on February 8.
It is a triangular contest between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress party, which is trying to make a comeback after failing to open their account in the last Assembly elections in 2015. AAP led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had won 67 seats while the BJP could manage only three seats.
AAP is contesting on all 70 Assembly constituencies.
The Bharatiya Janata Party is contesting 67 seats in the Delhi Assembly Election 2020. The three seats have been given to its alliance partners, Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United).
The Congress has fielded candidates on 66 seats. Congress has formed an alliance with Lalu Prasad Yadav-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) which will contest on four seats.
The Congress has ruled the national capital for three terms between 1998-2013 under the leadership of Sheila Dikshit. She was defeated by Arvind Kejriwal in 2013 Assembly polls.
The BJP was in power in Delhi between 1993-1998 when Madan Lal Khurana became the chief Minister.
Polling
The voting in all polling booths will start at 8 am and will continue till 6 pm. Over 1.46 crore people will be eligible to vote in the 2020 Delhi Assembly polls.
Counting
The counting of the votes polled for the 70 Assembly constituencies will begin from 8 am on February 11.
Women candidates
There are 79 women contesting elections out of the 672 nominations filed while the combination of AAP, BJP and Congress have fielded 24 women in total. AAP has field nine women candidates, the BJP has fielded five candidates and the Congress has fielded 10 female candidates.
2015 Delhi Assembly Polls
In the 2015 polls, the AAP won 67 of 70 seats, with the remaining three going to the BJP and the Congress drawing a blank. The AAP emerged with 54.3 per cent of the vote share. The BJP was second with 32.3 per cent and the Congress trailed with a poor 9.7 per cent.
High-profile seats
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will contest from New Delhi while Deputy CM Manish Sisodia is contesting from Patparganj Assembly constituency.
Congress has fielded Delhi Congress chief Subhash Chopra’s daughter Shivani from Kalkaji where she will face the Aam Aadmi Party’s Atishi.
Kapil Mishra, a former AAP minister who later defected to BJP, has been fielded from Model Town.
BJP candidate Tajinder Bagga, party’s social media activist, has been fielded from Hari Nagar where he will contest Rajkumari Dhillon of AAP and Surender Sethi of Congress.
These are the first Assembly elections in the country after Jharkhand where BJP lost to an alliance led by JMM which also included the Congress.
The last time Delhi voted, it was during the Lok Sabha polls in 2019, where the BJP swept all seven seats.
Delhi Elections
MCD elections 2022: AAP announces second list of 117 candidates
Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections will take place on December 4, and the counting of votes will be done on December 7.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced the second list of 117 candidates for the upcoming Delhi MCD elections on Saturday. The party released the first list of 134 candidates on Friday.
Along with the list of candidates, AAP tweeted Our second list of candidates for the upcoming MCD elections is here! Congratulations to all. Delhi will Vote for Jhaadu to clean the 3 Garbage Mountains gifted by the BJP.
Bobby Kinnar, a member of the transgender community, has been nominated by the party to run in the upcoming elections from Sultanpuri-A Ward. One seat has been reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates in the Sultanpuri-A ward. Sanjeev Kumar of the AAP won the seat in the 2017 elections.
In addition, Kejriwal announced the party’s manifesto for the elections on December 4, promising that his administration would endeavour to uphold 10 guarantees.
Earlier in the day, at a press conference, Kejriwal had dared the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to tell the public about five things that they have done in the MCD in the last 15 years. He said Forget even five things, let them [BJP] come out and tell us about two things that they have done in the MCD. They just hold press conferences and abuse Arvind Kejriwal 24 hours a day, he stated.
BJP on Saturday unveiled its initial list of 232 candidates for the civic body elections, with the nominees including 126 women, three Muslims, seven Sikhs, and nine former mayors.
Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections will take place on December 4, and the counting of votes will be done on December 7. Voting for 68 assembly seats will be held from 8 am to 5:30 pm on December 4.
Delhi Elections
Delhi MCD elections: Voting on December 4, result on December 7
As per the notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the number of MCD wards has come down to 250 this year from 272.
The state election commission (SEC) of Delhi announced the schedule for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections 2022 today. The elections will take place on December 4 and the counting of votes will be held on December 7.
The SEC stated that the model code of conduct will come into force from today. Hoarding and banners used for the election campaign will be removed. As per the notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the number of MCD wards has come down to 250 this year from 272.
Delhi MCD election schedule
Issue of notification – November 7
Last date of filing nomination – November 14
Scrutiny of nomination- November 16
Last date for withdrawal of candidate- November 19
Date of polls- December 4
Counting of votes – December 7
Completion of the entire election process – December 15
Vijay Dev, Delhi State Election Commissioner stated out of those 42 seats for SC, 21 seats will be for SC women. 104 seats will be reserved for women, he said.
Delhi Election Commission said that nominations will start in Delhi from November 7 and the last date to file nominations is November 14. As per the EC, out of 70 assembly seats, elections will take place in 68 seats. No polling could be held on two seats due to the death of candidates.
The EC has appointed Returning Officers and has taken the objections and suggestions of the public as well as political parties into consideration, by setting up polling booths at the ward level.
EC said immediate action will be taken against illegal hoardings and posters from today onwards. Loudspeakers will not be allowed from 10 pm to 6 am. The nomination of the candidates will be done from 10 am to 3 pm at 68 places. The police have also been instructed to provide proper security. Candidates can spend between Rs 5.75 lakhs and Rs 8 lakhs.
Delhi Elections
Stop crying like Congress: Manish Sisodia slams BJP over delaying Delhi MCD poll dates
Manish Sisodia came down heavily on BJP after Union Minister Smriti Irani accused AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal of depriving the MCD employees of Rs 13,000 crores.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for delaying Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections in the capital. Sisodia in a press conference slammed the BJP government and asked them not to cry like Congress and said that there will be a big achievement for BJP if they even win 10 seats. If you have the courage then don’t run away, fight (contest MCD elections) with us, Sisodia added.
Sisodia came down heavily on BJP after Union Minister Smriti Irani accused AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal of depriving the MCD employees of Rs 13,000 crores. Kejriwal had earlier in the day conducted a press conference in which he expressed outrage over the postponement of municipal corporation elections in the national capital, claiming that doing so weakens the democratic system.
Kejriwal in a statement said that the date for MCD polls was to be announced at 5 p.m. on March 9, but the same day an hour ago, Centre wrote to State EC to combine all 3 civic bodies into one, and to delay polls. EC agreed to do so. The State Election Commissioner must reveal if he was threatened (by Centre) with ED, I-T, CBI raids, or has been given a post-retirement role after April. he added.
Responding to Kejriwal’s statement, Irani said Kejriwal has deprived the people of Delhi of the strongest unit of Democracy, of its funds, adding, they (AAP) are requested to allow development work to be done till the slums of the poor, let the reform work be done.
The MCD election dates are yet to be issued by the Centre, according to the State Election Commissioner, who is investigating certain legal objections presented by the central government. The Centre intends to restructure the MCD by combining Delhi’s three municipal corporations.
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