Commuters travelling between Delhi and Ghaziabad will now have a smooth ride as chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday inaugurated two flyovers – at Anand Vihar and G T Road. These projects will help reduce traffic jams at the border and reduce travel time between the two cities. A railway overbridge/underbridge was also inaugurated at Nand Nagri.

Dikshit said that with the commissioning of these two flyovers she hoped that traffic woes of  east Delhi residents “will be part of history”. She also announced that more such projects will soon come up in various parts of Delhi.

Even before the courts have cleared former MP Jagdish Tytler of his involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom, Congress has reinstated him in the organisation by making him AICC in-charge of Bihar.

The development comes barely three months after the party was forced to withdraw Mr Tytler’s candidature for Delhi’s North-East Lok Sabha constituency. The man at the centre of the storm will preside over the party’s effort to rejuvenate itself in Bihar, replacing Iqbal Singh who has been appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.

According to Sources, Mr Tytler is likely to be given the Rajya Sabha seat from Delhi, which had fallen vacant after J P Agarwal’s election to the Lok Sabha.

The party was forced to withdraw Mr Tytler from LS race after a Sikh journalist hurled a shoe at home minister P Chidambaram, drawing fresh attention on the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom. Mr Tytler along with fellow candidate Sajjan Kumar were withdrawn from the electoral race.

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.

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.

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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.

As if throwing his weight behind the Congress candidate from North East Delhi was not enough, BSP candidate, Haji Dilshad Ali, dealt another blow to his party on Tuesday when he released an advertisement in a vernacular daily, asking his supporters to vote for Congress.

A day after defecting to the Congress, while Haji Dilshad Ali, the erstwhile BSP candidate from Northeast Delhi, hogged the limelight for a brief while by sharing the stage with Rahul Gandhi during a rally on Tuesday, BSP national general secretary Nasimuddin Siddiqui accused the Congress of “bribing” him away.

The Congress has denied that any money had changed hands.

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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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