Delhi Elections : South Delhi Constituency
The candidates chosen by the two traditional major rivals in Delhi – Ramesh Kumar by the Congress and Ramesh Bidhuri by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Forty-two villages now dot the South Delhi constituency, which has 1.54 million voters. Jats are in the majority in 18 of these villages, Gujjars in 12.
The BJP has fielded Bidhuri, a Gujjar, to attract votes from this community. Ramesh Kumar, the Congress candidate, is the brother of the MP from Outer Delhi, Sajjan Kumar, a Jat leader.
Hoping to make inroads in Bidhuri’s Gujjar vote bank, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has nominated another Gujjar, Kanwar Singh Tanwar.
In the last assembly elections Congress secured 36.1 percent of the votes, winning five of the 10 assembly seats; the BJP got 31.5 percent and won four seats; the BSP won 24.5 percent of the vote and got one seat.
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