Around 15.5 million voters across Delhi will be the head of polling booths starting at 7 am on Wednesday in the first election battle of 2025, the culmination of a high-voltage assembly competition for the capital which will have deep re-rehabilitation in national politics.
From 70 seats-Lajpat Nagar and Rajinder Nagar’s stirring markets and GK-1 and middle class enclaves of the middle class, Chandni Chox’s snacking streets and Jor Bagh’s trees and garden will decide for the road. In 13,766 polling stations, the futures of 699 candidates which are the most fought assembly elections in the years.
Voters will tamper with impossible contradictions-urban and rural, rich and poor, and every shadow and ethnicity castes and communities-such as colonial colonial-era people of Delhi and the people of Delhi and Burari’s pit, GTB city and office With the cacoffney of the Connaught Place, and the dull grandeur of Old Delhi and the working-class of Okhla, we come together to decide the fate of the national capital.
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Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Devesh Chandra Srivastava, who is the state police nodal officer for the assembly elections, said that the police force has been prepared for polling day, with more than 42,000 personnel of Delhi Police, Central Armed Police With 220 companies. Force (CAPF) and 19,000 Home Guards from Rajdhani, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan on duty on polling day.
“After the voting process is over, we will ensure that the EVMs and all the voting -related materials are safely returned to their storage rooms,” he said.
Votes will be counted on 8 February. AAP won 62 out of 70 seats in the 2020 elections, in which the BJP won the remaining eight.
Despite the mild size of voters, Delhi always exits the national political stage due to the reputation of the capital and the reputation associated with the fact that its population reflects the diversity of widespread national demographics. But in the last five years, unprecedented acuity between the elected state government and the Lt Governor (LG) derailed the local rule and immersed the capital into a moras of poisonous wind, infrastructure, growing crime and dysfunction of policy. Gave.
The 43 -year -old IT professional, who votes in East Delhi, hopes Ruchika Dheer that people are ready to vote in large numbers.
“It is not only our right, but also moral responsibility to vote. The city needs to live in good hands and I hope the government takes good care of the capital and its people, ”he said.
Election is a type of referendum for the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which won the landslide in 2015 and 2020, but spent the better part of the last five years with allegations of corruption which almost the entire front line leadership Send behind bars. Born out of Kaulladron of the anti-corruption movement in the capital, AAP demanded to focus on their central welfare plank by offering 16 SOP bouquets for cash-ups for free treatment for all senior citizens. Is of , This has demanded to leave the anti-opposing anti-opponent to leave almost a third of its supporting MPs and to challenge the opponents with an alternative to his main face, former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The party has been provoked by a string of high-profile arrests in the last three years and several policies have been stopped by LG VK Saxena. Elections come at an important time for the party that is struggling with a shrinking national footprint after his victory in Punjab in 2022.
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An AAP official said that the party launched a positive campaign, focused on the work done by their government. “People are with AAP … According to our estimates, the AAP will form the government. Women are supporting us with full enthusiasm and appeal to all of us to vote for AAP and reject derogatory BJP and its hooliganism Let’s do … if women push us another, we can also cross 60, “the official said.
Its prominent Challenger, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expecting to ride the anger of the anti-middle and middle class for its first victory in the capital in 27 years. The party has failed to dissolve double digits in the last two assembly elections, but after the entire work in Delhi is fancying its opportunities and the civic infrastructure between the common people has become angry. The party is expecting to repeat its commanding performance in the 2024 general elections, when it exceeded all seven parliamentary seats in Delhi. It deployed a phalanx of central leaders under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who followed the AAP on corruption and misunderstanding.
The party has matched the AAP in welfare outreach and spoke on the tax break for the middle class in the Union Budget to secure its traditional vote bank. It would be hoping to sprinkle something between poor voters and marginalized castes in the main basis of AAP, which is a result of its disciplined campaign that stayed away from communal issues on a large scale.
Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva said that he is confident that the BJP will form the government in the city.
“We will win behind the hard work of our workers and the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kejriwal looted and cheated Delhi. ,
The Congress is the third player in the triangular competition, and has launched a large -scale lukewarm campaign centered around the records of the Gandhi family and the then Sheela Dixit government. The party has not won a single seat in the last two assembly elections, but it can still make a difference in a tight competition, especially in seats with minority and marginalized voters.
Delhi Congress President Devendra Yadav said that the preparation of the party started before the election dates were announced.
“We have been interacting with people since our Nyay Yatra in December, and is looking at a big innings in Delhi’s political scenario. It is very likely that when the results come this time, we can see a Congress government in Delhi. Data may suggest that AAP has maximum seats and they can win, but this time the mood of the people is different, and they believe in Rahul Gandhi and Congress, ”he said.
The fight for Delhi is the first major election fight this year and will shape national politics. It comes only a few months after winning the landslide victory in Maharashtra and stole an unexpected victory over the Congress in Haryana. The party will see to enhance its political capital to maintain this pace in Delhi and push it through big proposals.
For AAP, the challenger is stifer. The Rajdhani Party and its founder are cradle for Kejriwal, who have sought to use their personal appeal for pure votes for the party. Winning these elections will be important for the long -term future and national ambitions of the party and affect the functioning of the larger Indian national developmental inclusive coalition. The Congress will be expected to do a decent show after its disappointing performance in Haryana and Maharashtra, so that its image can be strengthened not only at the national level but also within the opposition block.
The key to the result in Delhi will be the demographic of women, poor, marginalized castes and middle class colonies. In the last 10 years, AAP has maintained a throat on the first three groups due to its governance distribution and welfare promises, while the fourth is a loyal BJP voter base. This time, in a fierce fighting elections, both major parties have done a drama for these swing voters.
In the last week, political temperature is rising with both AAP and BJP, which is blaming each other for the manipulation of electoral rolls, violation of model code of conduct and bribery to voters.
Among the issues that are likely to play on the situation of voters’ minds, welfare, corruption, civil infrastructure and gang -related crimes. But these elections will also be hurt for five years for the capital, which is surrounded by frequent clashes between communal conflict, crime, infrastructure collapse and two weapons of the government, which is Hamstrang Delhi.
The rule of the national capital is divided among the elected state government, in charge of all areas except for land, law and order (known as reserved subjects), which are in turn in turn. The new government will have to re -navigate this complex governance area.
