Dr Swamy, BJP: Jhadu is getting enough vote without my vote . I have to stand by my BJP worker especially after the Budget googly
Exit polls for the Delhi assembly election predicts convincing win for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party.
The Times Now-Ipsos exit poll predicted that AAP will win 47 seats against 23 for the BJP.
The Republic-Jan ki Baat survey gave the AAP 48-61 seats and the BJP 9-21 seats.
The India Today-Axis poll forecast 59-68 seats for the AAP and 2-11 for the BJP,
ABP-CVoter says AAP between 49 and 63 and that BJP may win 5 to 19.
An exit poll from Neta-NewsX said the AAP may win 53-57 seats and the BJP 11-17.
ABP's survey says - AAP's vote share may be a whopping 50.4 per cent as against 36 per cent by the BJP.
There seems to be modest change in vote share for both BJP and AAP. In 2015, vote share was 54.3 and 32.3 per cent for AAP and BJP respectively.
AAP had won 67 and remaining three seats went to BJP. Congress scored a zero !!
Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari said - the BJP will win 48 seats.
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Muslim dominated segments record highest voter turnout !!
Assembly seats of Matia Mahal, Mustafabad and Seelampur recorded the highest voter turnout in the Delhi elections.
Mustafabad in northeast Delhi recorded 66 per cent !!
Matia Mahal in old Delhi had a voter turnout of 65.62 per cent.
Seelampur - 64.92 per cent voting.
"Voted. I may have been the first in the sleepy colony Nizamuddin. But impressed by the advancement made by EC. All IT and by scan. VVPAT, my contribution through SC case, looking nice". - Dr Subramanian Swamy
दिल्ली विधानसभा चुनाव के लिए आज मतदान का दिन है। सभी मतदाताओं से मेरी अपील है कि वे अधिक से अधिक संख्या में लोकतंत्र के इस महोत्सव में भाग लें और वोटिंग का नया रिकॉर्ड बनाएं।
Urging the people of Delhi, especially my young friends, to vote in record numbers.- Narendra Modi
Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi CM, AAP tweeted: "Please go to cast vote. A special appeal to all the women - As your shoulder the responsibility at home, likewise, the responsibility of the country and Delhi is on your shoulders. All of you women do cast your vote and take along men with you. Do discuss with men about voting for whom will be right," the chief minister added.
Over 1.47 crore people are eligible to exercise their franchise in the Delhi polls.
The contest is between AAP and BJP and the Congress is also in the fray, but Congress performance has hardly improved. Delhi polls will elect the fate of 672 candidates.There are over 81 lakh male voters, 66.80 lakh female voters, and 869 third-gender voters, Delhi Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Ranbir Singh has said.
Around 2.33 lakh voters are in the age group of 18-19, 2.04 lakh voters are senior citizens aged 80, while there are 11,608 service voters, according to officials.
BJP slams AAP leadership over arrest of Sisodia's OSD
New Delhi, Feb 7 The BJP on Friday slammed and took potshot at the AAP leadership over the arrest of OSD to Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and said the episode only reflects that all that is not transparent under the city government.
"Today, we understand why Lokpal has not come in Delhi.....," tweeted
BJP spokesman Sambit Patra in his tweet in Hindi. "They are all in nexus.....it is only a case of pretending to be common man," he mocked.
BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya also took to the micro blogging site
and wrote: "No OSD in a Deputy CM’s office can accept bribes without
the knowledge of his political boss......There have been several
allegations of corruption on Kejriwal and Sisodia in the past too".
In another missive in Hindi, Mr Malviya wrote: "A party born in the name of fighting corruption may end with corruption". The concerned official has been arrested by the CBI on Thursday late night.
For his part, in a tweet, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia wrote that the CBI should immediately punish the concerned official.
What is at stake is huge? Defeat for the BJP could damage its image and that of PM Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo amid violent protests over changes to the citizenship law.
"People of this country and Delhi today saw the ugly face of AAP," BJP national president J P Nadda has said minutes after news went viral on television news channels and social media that Shaheen Bagh shooter Kapil and his father had joined AAP last year. There were also snaps of Kapil with key AAP leaders. Kapil's family had rejected this claim nevertheless and said Kapil had only attended a meeting of AAP and therein came those photographs.
The polarisation has been happening on the protest of Shaheen Bagh also where mostly Muslim women are sitting for last 55 days also resulting in road blockade and 'inconvenience' to many including some residents of Hindu majority localities.
None other than Prime Minister Modi and his Home Minister Amit Shah have suggested more than once that the protest by the Muslim women at Shaheen Bagh locality in the capital were more than mere anti-CAA protest.
This stir is also seen as communal and "made out to be one" by the BJP as an act 'by Muslim protestors alone', says Congress leader in Lower House of Parliament Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
The stakes are high for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as it has been out of power in the capital since 1998. More importantly, the BJP suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the newly floated Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in 2015 when it only won three seats in the 70-member assembly.
The other 67 seats went to the AAP and its leader Arvind Kejriwal, who boosted his political career with a popular anti-corruption movement in 2011. Congress drew blank !
The Congress party has hardly improved its performance and this is worrying the saffron party as the Sonia Gandhi-Rahul led outfit could eat up AAP's vote share !
Of course, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is using the Ram temple and other related issues like Art 370 to boost his party's electoral prospects.
Of course, there are some worrying factors for Modi and his lieutenant Amit Shah, a diehard proponent of a hardcore Hindutva agenda. A defeat for the BJP could dampen the party's and its leadership's national image.
Will it be erroneous to say that right-wing politics are here to stay worldwide? The maxim should be relevant at least for a while in India, the world's largest democracy.
Speak about the politics of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and everyone knows that his primary concept of a great India is rooted in the spirit of Ram Rajya, the kingdom of Hindu god Ram.
The politics of religious division have taken center stage as Delhi gears up for polls to elect its legislature on Feb. 8.
Modi on Feb. 5 announced the setting up of a trust that will work for the construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya. The decision of the federal cabinet is in tune with the judgment of the Supreme Court delivered last November. The big question is only about the timing.
Hyderabad MP and chief of AIMIM (that draws support among Muslims chiefly), Asaduddin Owaisi tried to sum up the paradox of the Prime Minister Modi's party and said: Seems like the BJP is worried about what will happen in Delhi polls. Parliament session will get over on February 11, the announcement about the Temple Trust could have come after Delhi elections".
Some others have said Prime Minister had sought to give a checkmate games with the Election Commission's Model Code of Conduct and made use of the 'parliamentary powers' to bring back the Ram Temple issue into public discourse as the 'polarisation' is expected to help boost his party's electoral battle.
The poll strategists are uneasy with most surveys predicting that though AAP could have lost some of its ground (67 seats) since 2015, it would be still able to win over 45 seats and form government of its own. Hence comes the worrying factors for the Prime Minister - who wrote himself to history when under his leadership BJP crossed the 300 member marks in the Lok Sabha!
India's politics since mid-December is guided by violent protests by students, Muslim groups, women and major political parties against a controversial amendment the federal government made to the citizenship law in December.
BJP leaders maintain that the aim of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is to ensure that citizenship is granted to persecuted religious minorities, including Christians and Hindus coming from three neighboring countries.
However, government critics say the law is discriminatory to Muslims. Even Western newspapers have published articles accusing Modi of building a Hindu state.
The politics of polarization are not simply linked to talk about a Ram temple trust. It was recently reported that a man who fired shots at an anti-CAA protest site at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi had been sent by the AAP.
Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah have suggested more than once that the ongoing protest by mainly Muslim women at Shaheen Bagh is more than a mere anti-CAA protest.
"The BJP's electoral strategy in Delhi is a case of hard selling Hindu polarization and patriotism. But how much of it will it succeed remains to be seen. The polarization card did not help the BJP in provincial elections in Haryana or Maharashtra," said socialist leader Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party.
Saugata Roy of Trinamool Congress speaks in a similar vein: "When Mr. Modi came to power again in 2019, everyone was looking at the great man and how he would transform India, and what we have now is only persecution and polarization."
Debate on citizenship
Since May 30, 2019, when Modi was sworn in again with an enhanced mandate, the federal government has pushed several changes with an inherent pro-Hindu slant. These include abrogation of Article 370 in militancy-hit Jammu and Kashmir, a new law banning triple talaq divorce among Muslims, and of course passing the amended citizenship law.
Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram warns that India is entering dangerous territory. “We have reached a point where the debate on secularism has shifted to a debate on citizenship. If you are secular, there are people who will call you anti-national, if you are secular today, they will say that you are speaking the language of Pakistan, your patriotism is under question," he said.
In June 2019, UCA News reported the fears of religious minority leaders and some liberals that the BJP could change the constitution to discard the parliamentary system. Their fears seem to be coming true.
Opposition leaders allege that the government has locked up political opponents in Kashmir and used police force against dissenting students and minorities to virtually turn India into an authoritarian state.
BJP leaders predictably deny these charges. Lawmaker Dilip Ghosh from West Bengal says that "PM Modi is working for inclusive development and is against Muslim appeasement as was cherished for long by Congress and other parties."
It is in this context, he said, that the Modi government has made triple talaq illegal in India since August 2019, helping battered Muslim women.
Ghosh and other BJP leaders say the “discredited” opposition is now trying to bank on street protests, arson and anarchy to corner the Modi government.
Samir Dwivedi, a retired army colonel, joined the BJP this week. "Those who are encouraging the protest at Shaheen Bagh are the same people who were praising China in 1962. If we do not come forward to support Prime Minister Narendra Modi now, we will not be able to control the fire," he said.
Ironically, Dwivedi's father Janardhan Dwivedi is a Congress veteran and was once one of the close advisers of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Now that all eyes are on the Delhi polls, BJP leaders feel that a favorable outcome in the capital, especially against the backdrop of anti-CAA protests, would be a fitting reply to Modi bashers.
Modi's most trusted lieutenant, Amit Shah, is anchoring all electoral strategies.
More than 200 BJP MPs are campaigning. Shah says the election will be a contest between two ideologies — one pro-India and nationalistic and the other supporting those who are playing at the hands of anti-India forces. "The poll results will be a shocker to everyone," he said.
On June 3, 2019 - We said: "The main apprehension among religious minority leaders and a section of left-liberals has been that the BJP could change the constitution to discard the parliamentary system".
Meanwhile, it appears the debate on Ram Temple at Ayodhya (the erstwhile Kingdom where Hindu God Ram was believed to have been born) is far from over despite the Nov 9 (2019) judgement of the Supreme Court.
President of powerful Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, Maulana Arshad Madani, on Feb 5 said the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya was a mosque in view of the Shariah and would remain the same.
"It would remain a mosque till the Day of Resurrection," he remarked shortly after PM Modi announced in Lok Sabha that a Trust named 'Shri Ram Janambhoomi Teertha Kshetra' has been set up and would be given autonomous power for early construction of a grand Ram Temple.
The construction of Ram Temple at the very spot where existed Babri Masjid in Ayodhya has been a chief socio-political and contentious issue in Indian polity since 1980s.
Union Home Minister Shah has been stating this more than once now in the run up to the polls - "Press the EVM button on February 8 with such force and anger that its current and the poll results will shock Shaheen Bagh protestors".
There could be certain inherent contradictions in all these as well.
All these 'sectarian politics' seems to be happening at ease in India under the stewardship of an ambitious man keen to deliver - Modi.
India's Prime Minister is also known as a 'pragmatist' who has an agenda of "enhancing his global image" and has been managing to win 'accolades' from the likes of US President Donald Trump in public rallies as well from Muslim nations who have heaped highest civilian awards of those countries on him.
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