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Parvesh Verma, Arvind Kejriwal (C) and Sandeep Dikshit (R) NEW DELHI: With only two days between voting and results, debates over exit polls heated-up as two more surveys were released on Thursday, echoing earlier predictions. Aam Aadmi Party, however, dismissed all projections, arguing that pollsters have “historically” underestimated its performance.Most exit polls were released on…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday slammed Congress and said that expecting ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ from the oldest party will be a huge mistake.In the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, PM Modi criticised AAP and its national convener Arvind Kejriwal prior to Delhi elections. He referenced the ‘Sheesh Mahal’, alluding to the renovations at Kejriwal’s…
As campaigning intensifies for the Delhi Assembly elections, scheduled for February 5, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress are raining promises of welfare schemes on every section of voters. The BJP, which was critical of the ruling AAP’s unrestrained populism as “revdi”, or a freebie culture, has not…
Arvind Kejriwal (Image credits: PTI) NEW DELHI: Three generations of families turned up at polling booths on Wednesday to cast their votes in the Delhi assembly election, reflecting a strong commitment to democratic participation. As voting took place across 13,766 stations in the city’s 70 sssembly constituencies, the electoral battle remained a triangular contest between…
Arvind Kejriwal (Image credits: PTI) NEW DELHI: Three generations of families turned up at polling booths on Wednesday to cast their votes in the Delhi assembly election, reflecting a strong commitment to democratic participation. As voting took place across 13,766 stations in the city’s 70 sssembly constituencies, the electoral battle remained a triangular contest between…
AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal, INC’s Sandeep Dikshit and BJP’s Parvesh Verma NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Assembly elections on Wednesday saw a voter turnout of 46.55% by 3 pm, an increase from 33.31% by 1 pm. Earlier in the day, the turnout was recorded at 8.10% by 9 am.Voting began at 7 am and will continue until 6…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal accompanied by his wife Sunita and his elderly parents cast his vote for the Delhi Assembly elections on Wednesday morning. The 56-year-old former Delhi chief minister, along with his parents Gobind Ram Kejriwal and Gita Devi, both of whom were in wheelchairs, exercised their democratic rights…
NEW DELHI: Delhi has braced itself for the assembly elections, which are taking place on today, where more than 1.5 crore eligible voters will have the chance to decide the national capital’s politcal fate.A total of 699 candidates: 603 men, 95 women, and one third-gender candidate, are contesting for 70 assembly seats, after 2 weeks…
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and spokesperson Pawan Khera has said that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal and his party would not have been part of the INDIA bloc if it was up to the Congress.“If Congress was given a choice, I don’t think he (Arvind Kejriwal) would have been a part (of…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission of India on Tuesday alleged that there were “deliberate pressure tactics to malign” the poll body in the Delhi elections after Aam Aadmi Party accused it of indulging in “hooliganism” by not taking any action against BJP’s Ramesh Bidhuri and kin for “violating” the MCC. “The 3-member Commission collectively noted repeated…
