Delhi Polls: Catastrophe Outing For Congress As 95% Of Social gathering Leaders Lose Deposits | India Information
Delhi Ballot Outcomes: Congress candidates misplaced their safety deposits on all however three seats within the Delhi Meeting polls as practically 80 per cent of all contenders, together with these contesting independently, forfeited their deposits. All of the candidates of the AAP, BJP and its allies, Janata Dal (United) and LJP (Ram Vilas) managed to save lots of their safety deposits after the election outcomes had been declared on Saturday.
Out of the 699 candidates within the fray, 555 (79.39 per cent) candidates forfeited their deposits within the February 5 polls. It was a sorry state of affairs for the Congress that not solely drew a clean when it comes to seats for a 3rd time in a row, however 67 of its candidates additionally misplaced their safety deposits. The Congress, which dominated Delhi for 3 consecutive phrases until 2013, had fielded candidates in all 70 constituencies.
Solely three Congress candidates — Abhishek Dutt from Kasturba Nagar, the one chief from the occasion to complete second, Rohit Choudhary from Nangloi Jat and Devendra Yadav from Badli — managed to save lots of their safety deposits. Shifa-ur-Rehman Khan of AIMIM, which contested two seats, additionally managed to save lots of his safety deposit in Okhla.
In response to the Illustration of the Folks Act, 1951, any candidate from the overall class contesting an election is required to deposit Rs 10,000 with the Election Fee as a safety deposit. For candidates from Scheduled Castes and Tribes, the quantity required to be deposited is Rs 5,000.
In response to electoral regulation, the deposit must be forfeited if the candidate just isn’t elected and the variety of legitimate votes polled by her or him doesn’t exceed one-sixth of the full variety of legitimate votes polled by all of the candidates.
The BJP returned to energy in Delhi after greater than 26 years, successful 48 of the 70 meeting seats whereas the AAP received 22 seats.
