Stage set for crucial polls to elect the city government in Delhi Delhi Election Schedule: The Delhi elections will witness a fierce triangular contest between the AAP, BJP and the Congress. The ruling AAP, battling a wave of corruption allegations, will be eyeing a hat-trick.
The Election Commission announced on Tuesday that Delhi will go to polls in a single phase on February 5.
The results will be announced on February 8.
With the Election Commission's announcement of the poll schedule, the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) has come into force.
The AAP swept the 2015 and 2020 elections with 67 and 62 seats, respectively with Congress unable to win even a single seat both the times. The BJP was hardly a batter winning only three and eight seats in 2015 and 2020 polls.
The ruling AAP is eyeing hat-trick amid severe cold wave in the north India and the Arvikd Kejriwal-led outfit is battling a wave of corruption allegations.
In 2019 and 2024 polls, the Delhi voters had elected all seven BJP MPs proving twice while they preferred politics 'free electricity' at the local level but when it came to parliamentary elections they would repose faith in Narendra Modi and the BJP.
Just a few months on the eve of Lok Sabha election voting, voters in East Delhi said - Masala thoda zyda ho gaya .... in reference to the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal himself was arrested in a corruption case.
Mind you; there was no sympathy for the CM and later he had to resign and Ms Atishi was appointed to the post.
"You have the Chief Minister arrested and he comes out on a conditional bail; then a woman Rajya Sabha member is assaulted and the Chief Minister's close aide is arrested. Masala thoda zyda ho gaya," said Abhay Lal (in April 2024) is a voter in Delhi for the last 24 years.
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Politics and politicians often offer split personalities. But Delhi voters seem to introduce a new theory of split personalities in the electorate itself.
Take a closer look at the 2020 Delhi assembly elections. It was a shocker as only nine months back, PM Modi was BJP's mascot and only vote-getter in the national capital.
The party had won nearly 57 percent votes in Delhi in the 2019 parliamentary polls. The BJP had won all seven seats in 2019 and they had done so in 2014 as well.
But in 2015 and 2020 assembly polls, the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP came out with flying colours.
In August 2019, AAP leader Kejriwal was among the first to back the abrogation of Article 370.
The AAP too has not been totally against a modest tilt towards a soft Hindutva agenda.
Arvind Kejriwal avoided visiting Shaheen Bagh when Muslim women protested against the CAA. The BJP's consistent attempts to label Kejriwal as working against 'Hindu India' could not go further.
Kejriwal also played it up well in 2020 when he stated, "People of Delhi will decide whether I am a terrorist or your son".
But in 2024 people changed their equations allover.
Kejriwal was arrested in April and after 50 days, the Supreme Court gave him a conditional bail.
In between AAP's Rajya Sabha MP, Swati Maliwal was "manhandled" and subsequently, Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar was arrested for attacking Ms Malwal with full force and also allegedly slapping her.
In the run up to the 2025 assembly polls usual war of words have commenced between BJP and the AAP.
It is too early to say whether there will be a triangular contest. The Congress has announced cash dole for women. It has also fielded former MP Sandip Dikshit (son of former CM Sheila Dikshit) against Kejriwal for New Delhi assembly segment.
The BJP has fielded former MP Parvesh Singh Verma (also a son of an ex CM Sahib Singh Verma).
Arvinder Singh Lovely, a former Minister in Sheila Dikshit cabinet, is now a BJP nominee.
Voters are the masters in democracy and Delhi voters know how to exploit this.
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