ELECTION IN DELHI

The upcoming Legislative Assembly Election in Delhi scheduled to be held on 8 February 2020 to elect 70 members has now became the chief attraction in all round of political sphere of this country.

- Kishor Kumar Kalita

The electoral battle for Delhi’s throne, whose outcome on 11 February in most likelihood, is between the ruling Aam Admi Party (AAP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress. In the last legislative election held in 2015 the ruling AAP that had reduced the saffron outfit even in the backdrop of the historic victory of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections to mere three seats in a 70-member strong Delhi assembly and had eliminated the Congress’s presence in the legislative assembly. The AAP, which had secured 29 per cent vote share in 2013 assembly elections and had increased it to 33 per cent in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, increased its share of popular votes to 54 per cent in the last Assembly election. It increased its number of seats to 67 from the 28 that it had won in 2013. Surprisingly, the AAP’s vote share fell down from 54 percent in 2015 assembly elections to 18.11 percent in 2019 Lok Sabha election.