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 .

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.

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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.

More Information about India Elections

1. The 1.10 crore electors in the Capital will be able to exercise their franchise in seven Parliamentary constituencies

2. 49 lakh women will be exercising their franchise these Lok Sabha elections in the Capital

3. The Northwest constituency has 17.9 lakh electors, the highest among all the constituencies

4. The New Delhi constituency has 13.6 lakh electors, the lowest among all the constituencies. The constituency has 6 lakh women voters

5. A total of 160 candidates will contest from the seven Lok Sabha seats

Of these, 41 are from Chandni Chowk and 40 are from New Delhi. While East Delhi has 17 candidates, Northeast and Northwest have 16 each and West Delhi and South Delhi have 15 each

6. Seventeen women candidates will contest the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi this time

7. There will be 11,600 polling booths across the Capital

More Information about India Elections

On the last date of withdrawal of nomination for the Lok Sabha polls, the office of the chief electoral officer (CEO) was left with 160 candidates out of 166. Now, the office of the CEO will begin scrutiny of applications
and notify the final list of candidates.

Of the 160 candidates, 41 are from Chandni Chowk, and 40 from New Delhi. While East Delhi has 17 candidates, North-East and North-West have 16 each and West Delhi and South have 15 each.

With the filing of nomination papers coming to a close on Saturday, a total of 228 candidates are in the fray for the May 7 Lok Sabha polls in Delhi and 11 candidates will contest the Rohtas Nagar Assembly byelection.

The highest number of nominations – 56 – are from New Delhi seat and the lowest – 22 each – are from Northwest Delhi and South Delhi, a statement from the poll panel said.

Chandni Chowk has 45 candidates. Northeast Delhi, East Delhi and West Delhi have 30, 27 and 26 respectively.

The nomination process that started April 11 culminated Saturday. The numbers may still change, as the last day for withdrawal of candidature is April 22.

North-West Delhi’s Congress candidate Krishna Tirath on Monday filed her nomination papers in presence of Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and a large number of supporters. Tirath faces BJP’s Meera Kawaria in the seat which is Delhi’s sole reserved constituency.

As per the affidavit filed by her, the net worth of her and her husband, Vijay Kumar, has gone up by more than three times since the 2004 elections when they were together worth Rs 64,15,254. The present figure stands at Rs 2,11,46,350. The couple though now have only one car a 2006 model Wagon R as against two a 2000 model Zen and a 1999 model Santro five years ago.

Between the two of them, they have acquired 206 gm of gold in the past five years. Tirath acquired 330 gm of gold. She owns gold worth Rs 15.5 lakh while her husband owns gold worth Rs 3 lakh.

Tirath owns a 440 square metre residential plot in HUDA’s Sector 21 whose value has gone up from Rs 10 lakh in 2004 to Rs 40 lakh. Her husband owns two houses, a 84 square metre flat in Shalimar Bagh valued at Rs 40 lakh and a 75 square yard house in Karol Bagh, also valued at Rs 40 lakh. In 2004 each was said to be worth Rs 15 lakh.

Tirath had won the now deleted Karol Bagh seat in 2004, before which for a brief while she was deputy speaker of the state Assembly. She had been a minister in the state cabinet after the 1998 elections.