Delhi Dangal Dates Out, A Look At 3 Key Points That Dominated The Election Narrative – News18
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Delhi Elections: The primary main electoral battle of 2025 will see a triangular contest among the many Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP), Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP), and Congress
The time period of the Delhi meeting is because of finish on February 23. (AP)
The stage is all set for the Delhi Dangal. The Election Fee on Tuesday introduced the dates for the high-stakes meeting election to the Capital the place voting will happen on February 5 and the outcomes might be introduced on February 8.
The primary main electoral battle of 2025 will see a triangular contest among the many Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP), Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP), and Congress. The time period of the Delhi meeting is because of finish on February 23.
For the AAP, which has battled corruption expenses and seen its high brass cool their heels in jail, the elections are a litmus check to show that the get together — which was birthed from an anti-corruption motion — nonetheless guidelines over the hearts of Delhiites. Arvind Kejriwal’s get together, which has dominated Delhi with a full majority since 2015, is hoping that its schemes corresponding to free electrical energy, water, and free bus rides for ladies, aside from a month-to-month stipend of Rs 2,100, free healthcare for the aged, and a waiver of inflated water payments will assist it retain energy within the Capital.
In the meantime, the BJP, which has been out of energy in Delhi for over 26 years, is eager to claw again energy from Kejriwal and AAP. In a scathing assault on AAP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whereas kicking off BJP’s ballot marketing campaign, equated its rule in Delhi to “AAPda (catastrophe)”. The saffron get together has upped the ante towards the ruling AAP by focusing on Kejriwal’s extravagant expenditure on the CM’s bungalow when he held the highest publish.
For the Congress, the 2025 contest is a do-or-die battle. The Grand Previous Get together has been unable to open its account within the Capital — which it dominated for 15 years — within the earlier two elections. Snubbed by the AAP, with whom it’s preventing on the nationwide stage as a part of the INDIA bloc, the Congress has been attempting to revive its fortunes. It has promised Rs 2,500 month-to-month to girls underneath the ‘Pyaari Didi Yojana’ if voted again to energy.
Because the political temperatures rise, let’s check out key points which have dominated and can proceed to drive the Delhi discourse:
CORRUPTION
In an ironic flip of occasions, the AAP, which got here to energy on the anti-corruption plank, was embroiled in a liquor rip-off, confronted instances of cash laundering, and even confronted barbs over the costly renovation on the chief minister’s residence. The get together’s high brass was compelled to spend time in jail, starting from six months to 2 years. Nonetheless, now out on bail, the AAP has hit the electoral observe working and accused the BJP of attempting to implicate its leaders to intimidate them into leaping ship. The BJP, in the meantime, has accused Kejriwal of being the grasp puppeteer who is aware of all in regards to the scams proper underneath his nostril. The get together, whereas sharpening its assault on the previous CM’s ‘Sheesh Mahal’, accused the AAP convener of diverting folks’s cash to fund his extravagant challenge. Residence Minister Amit Shah alleged that over Rs 6 crore was spent on designer marbles, Rs 6 crore on motorised curtains, Rs 70 lakh on computerized doorways, Rs 50 lakh on carpets and Rs 64 lakh on good TVs on the chief minister’s residence when Kejriwal occupied it. The voter sentiment on the corruption subject appears divided. Whereas many consider the AAP is a sufferer of vendetta politics, others really feel the get together has misplaced its sheen and joined the bandwagon of tainted outfits.
CIVIC ISSUES
Mounds of rubbish, overflowing drains, water scarcity or provide of soiled water and broken roads have change into main points for voters within the Capital. Whereas the BJP blames AAP for the city apathy, the latter claims the saffron get together has solely tried to defame it and stall the work of the MCD. Delhi’s dwindling air high quality, which returns to hang-out the Capital in winters yearly, has additionally change into a bone of competition between the 2 events. Sadly, the last word losers within the tug-of-war are Delhiites who’re compelled to take care of unaddressed civic points.
ROW OVER VOTER ROLLS
The controversy over the alleged manipulation of electoral rolls within the Capital escalated after Delhi Chief Minister Atishi wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner, searching for one other spherical of verification of the voter deletions within the New Delhi meeting constituency. The revised voter checklist on Monday triggered the AAP, which accused the EC of indulging in “large-scale voter deletion fraud” even because the BJP claimed AAP didn’t “register faux voters, particularly Rohingya and Bangladeshi people” this time.
