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In an interesting development, BSP candidate Haji Dilshad has withdrawn his nomination in favour of the Congress candidate JP Aggarwal from North East Delhi.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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Chetan Chauhan figured that his cricket connection was the best way to establish a rapport with young voters in east Delhi. So, the BJP candidate and former opener of the Indian cricket team kicked off his election campaign from Gandhi Nagar by playing few shots.
It was a study in contrast. After the drama of Sandeep Dikshit’s arrival at the district commissioner’s office
in a fancy four-wheeler, BJP candidate Chetan Chauhan decided to turn up in a rickshaw.

Chauhan’s deliberate home-spun style was reinforced earlier in the day when he decided to start his nomination process with a puja at the Bhagwat Dham in Mayur Vihar.

Like his Congress rival though, Chauhan, despite his attempts to connect with the middle class electorate, may face some disconnect, as his assets amount to approximately a little over Rs 2 crore. It’s an increase over the 2004 elections, when he declared assets worth over Rs 50 lakh when fighting for re-election from Amroha, UP.

According to the declaration of assets of made by him while filing the nomination papers from East Delhi seat, he owns agricultural land of 18 bigha in Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh worth Rs 18 lakh and a non-agricultural plot costing Rs 10 lakh.

Chauhan who has entered the fray for the first time from the East Delhi seat also has residential property in Gurgaon worth Rs 20 lakh in his name, according to the affidavit.

A residential house in East Delhi worth Rs 70 lakh and another in Gurgaon in Haryana costing Rs 20 lakh is in the name of his wife Sangita.

He is the owner of two Scorpios, a Honda City and Maruti Zen, the affidavit said.

Chauhan declared that he and his wife have invested nearly Rs 60 lakh in various financial instruments like NSS, LIC, postal savings and policies.

While he possesses jewellery worth Rs three lakh, his wife owns gold and silver ornaments to the tune of Rs 1.20 lakh Chauhan has taken loan of Rs 23.80 lakh as per the affidavit.

1 Chandni Chowk Shri Vijendra Gupta
2 North East Delhi Shri B.L. Sharma “Prem”
3 East Delhi Shri Chetan Chauhan
4 New Delhi Shri Vijay Goyal
5 North West Delhi (SC) Smt. Meera Kanwaria
6 West Delhi Shri Jagdish Mukhi
7 South Delhi Shri Ramesh Bidhuri

After prolonged suspense over its nominees for the Capital’s seven Lok Sabha seats, The BJP leadership has reached an uneasy consensus on names for the seven parliamentary constituencies of the Capital, but with protests brewing, the party is keeping its cards close to its chest, and deferring a formal announcement.

The central election committee has “authorised” BJP president Rajnath Singh and senior leader L K Advani to decide on the candidatures in consultation with party general secretary Arun Jaitley.

According to sources, Vijay Goel has been shunted back to Chandni Chowk, while Janakpuri MLA Jagdish Mukhi has been asked to take over New Delhi, which Goel wanted.

Late Sahib Singh Verma’s son has been awarded the West Delhi seat – which the BJP is confident of winning. Two-time MLA Ramesh Biduri has also been rewarded with the South Delhi seat.

Northwest has been given to Meera Kanwaria. B L Sharma Prem could be given Northeast Delhi, while former president Dr Harshvardhan could be accommodated in East Delhi.

There might be a surprise element in East Delhi as former Amroha MP Chetan Chauhan has been contacted by Rajnath Singh. The former India opener has been active in Delhi cricket and the other contender is former Delhi BJP chief Harsh Vardhan. Chauhan has won from Amroha twice and lives in East Delhi which has a sizeable vote from east UP and Poorvanchal.