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In an interesting development, BSP candidate Haji Dilshad has withdrawn his nomination in favour of the Congress candidate JP Aggarwal from North East Delhi.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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Deepak Bhardwaj of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Thursday filed his nominations papers from the West Delhi constituency, declaring assets worth a whopping Rs 600 crore.

Bhardwaj is the richest candidate, so far, for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections surpassing the previous richest candidate who had declared assets worth Rs 514 crore.

Interestingly, the candidate who belongs to Mayawati’s party came on a tractor that he uses on his farmland, to the Rampura election office in West Delhi to file his nomination.

Earlier this week, the previous richest LS candidate, a Mumbai-based businessman, filed his nomination as an Independent from Surendranagar. Khimji Patadia, 53, has declared assets worth Rs 514 crore, mainly in jewellery and real estate.

The BSP changed its nominee for the East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency. Sources said the previous candidate-Asif Khan, a neurologist at a private hospital here-was not up to the mark and not keen in meeting party workers in the area.

The party has now nominated Haji Yunus from East Delhi.

The other candidates fielded by the BSP are Haji Mustaqeem (Chandni Chowk), Haji Dilshad (Northeast Delhi), Trilok Chand Sharma (New Delhi), Rakesh Hansh (Northwest Delhi), Kanwar Singh Tanwar (South Delhi) and Deepak Bhardwaj (West Delhi).

BSP has finished the Lok Sabha candidate selection process for the seven seats of the national capital with announcement of its nominee for West Delhi.

Deepak Bhardwaj will contest from West Delhi.

This time, the party has fielded three Muslim candidates, keeping in mind the minority vote-bank.

Asif Khan, a neurologist at a leading private hospital, is the party’s candidate from East Delhi while Mustaqeem from Chandni Chowk and Haji Dilshad will contest from Northeast Delhi seat.

The other candidates include Trilok Chand Sharma who will contest from New Delhi constituency and Rakesh Hansh fielded from North West reserved seat. Sharma was the candidate from Rajinder Nagar in the last assembly elections.

Kanwar Singh Tanwar, who lost the last assembly elections from Chhattarpur seat, has been selected to contest from South Delhi parliamentary constituency this time.