Delhi Elections
MCD Elections : Delhi Govt to focus on illegal colonies
With municipal elections scheduled early next year, the Congress-led Delhi Government has decided to focus on its crucial vote bank in the unauthorized and resettlement colonies in the city. With the state failing to deliver on its regularization promise to residents of 1,639 unauthorised colonies, chief minister Sheila Dikshit has now constituted a Group [...]
DUSU Results : NSUI wins President’s post, ABVP swept the other three
Congress student’s wing NSUI on Saturday won the Delhi University Students Union President’s post while candidates of BJP’s ABVP swept the other three top posts of the body.
National Student’s Union of India nominee Ajay Chikara won the President’s post of the DUSU, while Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad candidate Vikas Choudhary was elected as the [...]
Campaigning for DUSU polls begins
Election season at the Delhi University (DU), short and muted as it is after the implementation of the Lyngdoh committee recommendations, officially began on Thursday.
The University Elections office released the final list of candidates and all major political factions started campaigning for their panel of candidates who will contest to the post of president, [...]
Right to reject candidates is a ticklish affair : Election Commission
The Election Commission on Monday termed as a “ticklish affair” the demand for the right to reject candidates in elections.
“We have not applied our mind to it seriously, just heard about it here and there. It is going to be a ticklish affair,” Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi said.
He said the proposed right [...]
Delhi Congress legislative party met on Saturday to discuss the DUSU Elections
Delhi Congress legislative party met on Saturday to discuss the upcoming elections for the Delhi University Student’s Union which last year saw arch-rival ABVP rout the party’s student wing NSUI. The prestigious elections for the students association of Delhi University will be held on September 9 this year, and the NSUI will try to [...]
BJP demands Sheila Dikshit’s resignation over 2010 CWG scam
After boycotting the launch of the Chandni Chowk makeover project, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) hit the streets demanding Sheila Dikshit’s ouster on Friday. Marching from Civic Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, MCD councillors sought a CBI probe to probe the CM’s role in the CWG scandal.
Dressed in black, MCD councillors shouted slogans against [...]
BJP activists demand Shiela Dikshit’s resignation
Scores of BJP activists led by party MP Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday courted arrest after a protest here demanding resignation of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
The protesters assembled at Jantar Mantar and demonstrated in front of Parliament Street where they raised slogans against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Ms. [...]