Bharatiya Janta Party’s senior leaders say giving tickets to Poorvanchalis from the lower strata had a spillover effect as the party also won several seats in the neighouring wards. The party dession for given more ticket to Poorvanchalis people helped to get more 35 seats in Congress bastion east Delhi. seven poorvanchalis have won from east Delhi.

The fact that the BJP party gave ticket to poorvanchalis from the lower strata helped us in getting votesfrom the people living in slums and unauthorized colonies in the neighbouring wards as well. They instantly connected with him. We won all eight wards,” said Abhay Verma, president of Delhi BJP’s poorvanchali cell.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi, which was one of the largest civic bodies of the world. Almost 49 new elected councillors in mcd election in Delhi faced criminal charges that include murder, kidnapping and extortion criminal cases pending against them. Apart from criminal charges, the councillors also boast of money power. Out of the 236 councillors, 120 or 51 percent are crorepatis.

According to the figures, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes first in the list with 29 of its councillors facing criminal charges out of 121 elected, followed by Indian National Congress (INC) with 14 councillors out of 66. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has two councillors out of 14, while Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) has one councillor out of three.

Delhi chief minister and Congress leader Shiela Dikshit after defeat in municipal election said that ” No connection with the people may have been a cause for the defeat. Know party need to get in touch with people. Contact with people must continue. Shiela does not think the defeat is a personal setback even though she campaigned vigorously for her party. She explained her stand saying, “It is my duty as a senior party leader to campaign, which I did. But this is municipal election, not an Assembly election or parliamentary election and does not reflect on my performance at all.

Sheila Dikshit dismissed any suggestion that it may portend similar results in other elections with: “We lost in the MCD polls in 2007 also. But that didn’t impact the results of the Assembly and General Elections that followed. We won both.” Later, she did say that the election results will be considered as a referendum against her government if the Congress goes on to lose in the Assembly or General Elections.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leaders meet on Wednesday morning to discuss its future planing. BJP leaders, including the top slot, met at party President Nitin Gadkari’s residence here in the morning. The meeting was attended by L.K. Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and other key and senior leaders.

The meeting was to decide the future planning, how to go about the coming polls, and how to go about the states where we are not in power… other similar issues were taken up,” a source told Indo-Asian News Service.

Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday demand the resignation of Sheila Dikshit as Delhi Chief Minister after party victory in mcd election. owning moral responsibility for Congress’ electoral drubbing, saying the poll results are people’s mandate against her “corrupt” government. Delhi BJP Chief Vijender Gupta also thanked Delhiites for retaining faith in the party for a second consecutive term in the civic polls seen as a precursor to the assembly elections next year.

Senior party leader VK Malhotra demanded immediate resignation of Dikshit pointing that people of the city have rejected Congress in all the three new municipalties carved out of MCD by the Delhi Government.

After party victory, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari addressed the media on Tuesday to instill confidence among party workers demoralized since the recent hiding in the Uttar Pradesh polls. The Delhi results prove that BJP had emerged as a strong alternative to the “corrupt” Congress, Gadkari said, when the results had actually saved the day for the saffron outfit’s top leadership that held a meeting with the RSS top rung later in the day. With the focus at the meeting being the party’s prospects and preparations for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Gadkari said.

In an attempt to lift party workers’ sprits, Gadkari credited BJP’s “good work for the Delhi municipality” for which people re-elected it for another term. He, however, acknowledged that the victory was essentially a reflection of the nationwide anti-Congress mood.

The BJP has swept in MCD (Municipal Corporation of Delhi) elections, winning two of the three civic bodies and emerging close to a majority in the third by winning 138 seats out of the 272 seats in the trifurcated body. Congress has bagged 78 seats while BSP has got 15 seats and others including independent, have got 41 seats.

The BJP claimed that the victory in the Delhi Municipal Corporations’ election is a result of its good governance in the civic body. Talking to reporters in New Delhi yesterday, party President Nitin Gadkari termed the result as a clear indicator of the mood prevalent in the national capital.

The Bharatiya Janata Party voted back to power in three newly-created municipal corporations election in the capital. the BJP looks to be emerging as the single largest party and is confident of getting the support of independents to cross the midway mark. With several of its candidates winning, the saffron brigade also clocked leads in 138 of total 272 wards, while the Congress is winning in 75 after first few hours of counting of votes.

In South Delhi Corporation, BJP has won or is leading in as many as 43 out of the 104 wards while Congress candidates are ahead in 29 seats. Interestingly, the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) is ahead in 7 seats, while others are surging slowly in 25 seats

The BJP has surged ahead in all the three municipal corporations of Delhi. The party would secure majority in East and North Delhi, and emerge as the single largest party in South Delhi as per the latest lead projections. The civic election results would be a setback for the Congress as questions are bound to be raised about Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s ability to deliver.

In East Delhi Corporation and North Delhi Corporation the BJP is eyeing majority with the Congress way behind. The BJP has won or is leading in 31 seats while Congress is ahead in only 14 seats in the East. The big surprise is that smaller parties are ahead of the Congress, leading in 20 seats. In North Delhi Corporation, which has 104 seats, BJP is ahead in 64 seats while Congress is ahead in 24 seats. Others are leading 16 wards.

The Bharatiya Janata Party  emerged as the single largest party and is confident of getting the support of independents to cross the midway mark.128  seats result declared by State Election Commission out of 272 wards in all three corporations, BJP has so far bagged 68 while Congress has won 40 seats. BSP has bagged five seats, RLD two and JD(U) and INLD one each while ten independents have also won.

According to latest trends available for the total 272 wards, BJP is ahead in 138 seats, Congress in 75, BSP in 14 seats, while independents were leading in 45 seats.