Congress nominee for Rajya Sabha from Delhi Parvez Hashmi filed his nomination papers.

The seat fell vacant after sitting Rajya Sabha MP JP Agarwal was elected to Lok Sabha.

Hashmi, who is an MLA and a former Delhi Minister, was accompanied by party MPs from Delhi including Agarwal and entire Delhi Cabinet led by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit besides a large number of Congress leaders when he submitted papers to returning officer and Delhi Assembly Secretary Siddharath Rao.

The Cabinet also moved a resolution in support of Hashmi.

The Delhi High Court issued a notice to Ajay Maken and the returning officer of his Lok Sabha constituency asking for their
response on a plea seeking to declare Maken’s election null and void for alleged violation of the model code of conduct.

The court’s notice came on a petition, filed under the Representative of Peoples Act, seeking to declare Maken’s election null and void on the ground that he violated the code of conduct by spending much more than the maximum limit of Rs.25 lakh.

Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for petitioner Adesh Gupta, said Maken had claimed to have spent around Rs.20 lakh in his election campaign, but he issued full page advertisements in various national and local dailies.

“The MP adopted corrupt practices to get elected and distributed gifts among the electorate,” the counsel charged. The petition cited comparative charts of rates charged by newspapers for publishing advertisements.

The petition charged that Maken spent over Rs.1.5 crore on hoardings alone, which is contrary to his claim that he spent Rs.eight lakh on them. The minister claimed to have paid over Rs.80,000 to leading English dailies for the advertisements which was again not true, the petition alleged.

The Election Commission has announced by-elections to fill up 13 vacancies in Rajya Sabha from 10 States due to resignation of members following their election to Lok Sabha or other reasons. The poll will be held on August 10 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. and counting will be at 5 p.m. on the same day.

The poll will be held for one seat each in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, National Capital Territory of Delhi, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, two seats in Madhya Pradesh and three in Maharashtra.

For the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Puducherry, the Commission decided not to fill up the vacancy now.

L.K. Advani was on Sunday elected as leader of the BJP’s Parliamentary Party which however failed to elect its deputy leader in the Lok Sabha and its Rajya Sabha chief leaving it to him to take the key decisions which would give broad contours of future leadership.

With his election at BJP’s Parliamentary Party’s first meeting after the recent Lok Sabha elections, Mr. Advani, 81, becomes the Leader of the Opposition by virtue of heading the single largest opposition party.

The Congress swept the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi, with the party pocketing all seven seats in the city-state. Saturday’s results, after the convincing victory in last November’s Assembly elections, have as good as made the Capital a Congress fortress.

The margin for the Congress was the highest in East Delhi where Chief Minister’s son and sitting MP Sandeep Dikshit defeated BJP rival Chetan Chauhan by 2,41,053 votes.

In North-East Delhi Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president J. P. Agarwal, not only won the seat by the second highest margin of 2,22,243 votes.

In Chandni Chowk Union Minister Kapil Sibal of the Congress defeated his BJP rival and municipal councillor Vijender Gupta by 2,00,710 votes.

Union Minister of State and Congress candidate from New Delhi Ajay Maken who was pitted against BJP candidate and party national general secretary Vijay Goel posted a huge win by 1,87,809 votes.

Krishna Tirath won from the North-West Delhi reserved constituency by an almost similar margin of 1,84,433 votes defeating her BJP rival and former Delhi Mayor Meera Kanwaria.

Mahabal Mishra of the Congress, who was considered by many to be the weakest candidate of the seven, also proved his critics wrong by defeating senior BJP leader Jagdish Mukhi by a margin of 1,29,010 votes in West Delhi.

Finally in South Delhi, where like North-East Delhi the Congress replaced its candidate Sajjan Kumar with his brother Ramesh Kumar, the change did not affect the party’s fortune. And Mr. Ramesh Kumar  defeated his BJP rival Ramesh Bidhuri by 93,000 votes .

Today is the judgment day for India. Results of general elections 2009 are going to be declared today.

Counting of votes will be done at more than 1000 centers. More than 60,000 people will be handling the counting process under the supervision of Election Commission of India.

We have setup a dedicated page for elections results on our sister website IndiaElections.co.in, We will compiling all trends and results from all over the India for you.

The Lok Sabha elections of 2009 took place on 5 days, spread between April 16th and May 13th, and the counting of the voting ballots will take place on May 16th. A total of 71.4 crore voters exercised their voting rights through 11 lakh electronic voting machines. June 2nd has been set as a deadline for the start of the 15th Lok Sabha.

India Elections Results 2009

A three-tier security system and nearly 2,000 police personnel will be in place in the national capital to avoid any untoward incident on counting day May 16.

A three-layered security cover is thrown around seven counting centres in the national capital where 100 police personnel at each site have been positioned in addition to Quick Reaction Teams.

According to the office of the Delhi chief electoral officer, 5,000 officials will be involved in the entire counting process in eight counting centres on the day. Except for the East Delhi constituency which will have two counting centres, the rest of the six constituencies will have one counting centre each.

“The counting process will begin at 8 a.m. with the counting of the postal ballots first,” the official said.

According to the officials, the number of electronic voting machines (EVMs) used for the May 7 poll process here were 12,132 control units and 19,578 balloting units in 11,348 polling booths. Around 53 percent of the 11.09 million electorate in Delhi came out to vote this time. The polling process took place across seven constituencies.

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.

Here are the predictions about Delhi seats

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