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In an interesting development, BSP candidate Haji Dilshad has withdrawn his nomination in favour of the Congress candidate JP Aggarwal from North East Delhi.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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Film actor Sanjay Dutt will contest the Lok Sabha elections on the Samajwadi Party (SP) ticket from Lucknow. Mr. Dutt told a press conference on Friday that he was still an actor and not a politician as yet.

“My big brother Amar Singh said I should serve the people and I cannot refuse an offer from him,” he said. The Samajwadi Party and the Congress are in alliance and they are not really separate. The SP supported the Congress at a time of crisis and they were one, he pointed out.

He said that his parents Sunil and Nargis Dutt had supported the Gandhi family since his childhood.

He really respected Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and he was always there for both of them.

However, he clarified that he was fighting on the Samajwadi Party ticket and he had taken legal advice on this issue. His lawyers would ask for suspension of sentence.

He said that it was the media which was saying that he could not contest. But if Navjot Singh Sidhu who has been convicted of murder had his sentence suspended and contested elections, then why can’t he? The court had only convicted him under the Arms Act in any case.

The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday announced its first list of candidates for the next month’s Delhi Assembly elections.The list of 24 includes seven Muslim candidates and one woman, Anita Yadav, who is fighting election from Matiala.

“We will release the second list after Diwali. We have applications for all the seats but I cannot say that we will contest all seats. We will prefer not to contest all seats if we do not have a quality candidate,” the party’s Delhi president Shyam Gambhir told reporters.
The list

1. G S Rathore (Sadar),
2. G S Chawla (Matia Mahal),
3. Rajinder Bagri (Ballimaran),
4. S P Singh (Burari),
5. A Mishra (Timarpur),
6. Masood Khan (Seelampur),
7. Shahnawaz Khan (Babarpur),
8. Haseeb Khan (Karawal Nagar),
9. Sharafat Ali (Mustafabad)
10. Amanutullah Khan (Okhla).
11. Jaibir Singh (Patparganj),
12. O S Yadav (Laxmi Nagar),
13. C S Rathore (Nangloi Jaat),
14. Iqbal Ahmed (Vikaspuri),
15. O P Singh (Najafgarh),
16. Suresh Tomar (Badli),
17. R S Yadav (Bijwasan),
18. Anand Gupta (Sangam Vihar),
19. M S Khan (Badarpur),
20. L B Pandey (Moti Nagar),
21. Zile Singh (Narela),
22. A S Yadav (Kirari)
23. S N Yadav (Model Town).
24. Anita Yadav, ( Matiala)