The results of the elections to the Delhi University Students’ Union, in which the RSS-backed ABVP bagged three posts, while the Congress-controlled NSUI had to rest content with just one seat, are being seen in the political circles here as a reflection of the mood prevailing in the city.

The ABVP, which wrested control of the DUSU after a gap of 8 long years, made crucial changes in its candidate-selection process and voter-contact procedures, in keeping with the recommendations of the Lyngdoh Committee. The fact that the role of money power had diminished significantly too helped its case.

In an obvious reference to Rahul Gandhi, BJP said the NSUI’s defeat in Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) polls indicates the country’s youth does not accept leaders who “visit Dalit villages wearing Reebok shoes”.

The battle lines have been drawn ahead of the Delhi & Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) executive body elections scheduled for September 30 with Sameer Bahadur putting in his nomination for the post of President. Bahadur will against present incumbent Arun Jaitley for the post of president.

Wednesday was the last day of filing nominations for a total number of 24 posts. Seven posts have seen candidates elected unopposed. General secretary Sneh Bansal, club secretary Anil Khanna, joint secretary (accounts) Vinod Kumar Garg, additional joint secretary (sports) SS Sareen, additional joint secretary (club) Ganga Prasad Gupta, additional joint secretary (company affairs) Ravi Jain and additional joint secretary (accounts) Ashish Makhija, were elected as nobody other than them filed papers.

The Congress Thursday lost two seats in the Delhi by-elections with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) winning one seat each.

While BJP’s candidate Pardymn Rajput defeated Congress’ Tilotma Chaudhary in Dwarka, RJD’s Asif Mohhamed Khan trumped the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Braham Singh in Okhla.

Elections in Dwarka were held on Sep 10, and in Okhla on Sep 15.

In Dwarka, BJP’s Parduymn Rajput defeated his Congress rival Tilotma Choudhary by a margin of 11,365 votes while in Okhla, RJD’s Asif Mohd Khan pipped BSP’s Brahm Singh by 5,007 votes.

In the counting for the bypoll held on September 15, Asif Mohammad Khan polled 23,394 defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Bramha Singh by more than 5000 votes. Congress candidate Farhad Suri came third in the Muslim-dominated constituency with 17,804 votes.

“When a judicial probe is ordered into the September 19, 2008 Batla House encounter I will withdraw from the election for the Okhla seat,” announced Khan while kickstarting the campaign one month ago. All through the campaigns he reiterated the demand for a judicial probe into the encounter in which two Azamgarh youth, suspected as terrorists, were gunned down.

In the last assembly poll in December 2008 he strongly raised the issue and people responded by giving him 25000 votes, just 500 behind the sitting Congress MLA Parwez Hashmi whose ascension to the Rajya Sabha necessitated this bypoll. Khan and his wife had lost municipal council elections some months ago.

As many as eight counting centres have been set up across the seven parliamentary constituencies. In all the counting centres, a total of 55 halls have been identified for counting and the process will be executed from 807 tables. At each table there will be one supervisor, one counting assistant and one additional counting staff from the central government. In all about 5000 officials will be engaged on counting day.

In order to ensure fairness of counting of votes and accuracy of compilation of results, ECI has directed observers to choose two EVMs at random at the end of each round of counting for parallel verification.

BJP is going to win atleast three seats in Delhi general Elections 2009.Astrologer Jitender Kumar has predicted that BJP and congress will get 3 and 4 seats respectively. Jitender Kumar was not having much information about the birth details of candidates so he has done his calculation based on his unique method of prediction.

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A total of 851 of the capital’s residents braved the odds and exercised the 49 (O) option in general elections. The highest number was from the posh New Delhi constituency, where 178 voters registered their protest and asserted that no candidate contesting from the area was worthy of their votes.

Figures compiled by the Election Commission reveal that after New Delhi, a close second was West Delhi where 164 voters exercised the option followed by East, Chandni Chowk, North-West, South and North-East Delhi constituencies where the numbers stood at 153, 130, 130, 50 and 46 respectively.

The election campaign will come to an end on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in more places, ahead of Thursday’s Phase IV polling in 85 Lok Sabha constituencies in seven States and the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Political canvassing is at its peak, as less than 24 hours are left for the end of public campaign. One of the most important state that will go to polls on Thursday, is National Capital Delhi. Polling will be held in all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi on May 7. The main battle will be between arch-rivals Congress and BJP. However, BSP may play a crucial role in some of the seats.

Union Ministers Kapil Sibal (Chandni Chowk), Ajay Maken (New Delhi) and Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president J.P. Agarwal (North-East Delhi) and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s son Sandeep Dikshit (East Delhi) are in the ring. Mr. Ajay Maken’s (Congress) rival in the BJP is the former Union Minister, Vijay Goel.

In Delhi, BJP has been able to hold some advantage over the Congress, riding high on the personality of its Prime Ministerial candidate LK Advani, issue of terrorism, price rise, black money in Swiss Banks and confusion among the UPA allies. However, it is to be seen if the party can convert those responses into votes.

In an interesting development, BSP candidate Haji Dilshad has withdrawn his nomination in favour of the Congress candidate JP Aggarwal from North East Delhi. He has decided to campaign for the Congress candidate.

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BSP supremo Mayawati on Sunday targeted the Congress for being “anti-Dalit” and asked the people to teach the party a lesson.

From CBI clean chits to Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Bofors case and Congress leaders Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 riots case, to the black money trail – Maya alleged one Congress minister has crores stashed in Swiss bank accounts – to making political capital out of the three Muslim BSP candidates in the city, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister kept the 15,000-odd crowd glued to every word of her 50-minute speech.

“Baba Saheb Ambedkar had told Dalits not to vote for the Congress even after his death, after a Congress-fielded candidate defeated him in the 1952 Lok Sabha elections with the gross misuse of the government machinery,” Ms. Mayawati told an election rally here and asked the people to avenge the defeat of Dr. Ambedkar.

She alleged that the Congress led by “Nehru and Company” had attempted to block the entry of Dr. Ambedkar in the Samvidhan Sabha of the country through various measures. “These are the facts after knowing which, people from the Dalit community can never forgive the Congress,” she said.

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After prolonged suspense over its nominees for the Capital’s seven Lok Sabha seats, The BJP leadership has reached an uneasy consensus on names for the seven parliamentary constituencies of the Capital, but with protests brewing, the party is keeping its cards close to its chest, and deferring a formal announcement.

The central election committee has “authorised” BJP president Rajnath Singh and senior leader L K Advani to decide on the candidatures in consultation with party general secretary Arun Jaitley.

According to sources, Vijay Goel has been shunted back to Chandni Chowk, while Janakpuri MLA Jagdish Mukhi has been asked to take over New Delhi, which Goel wanted.

Late Sahib Singh Verma’s son has been awarded the West Delhi seat – which the BJP is confident of winning. Two-time MLA Ramesh Biduri has also been rewarded with the South Delhi seat.

Northwest has been given to Meera Kanwaria. B L Sharma Prem could be given Northeast Delhi, while former president Dr Harshvardhan could be accommodated in East Delhi.

There might be a surprise element in East Delhi as former Amroha MP Chetan Chauhan has been contacted by Rajnath Singh. The former India opener has been active in Delhi cricket and the other contender is former Delhi BJP chief Harsh Vardhan. Chauhan has won from Amroha twice and lives in East Delhi which has a sizeable vote from east UP and Poorvanchal.