The step is defined for the Delhi assembly elections. The territory of the Union will go to the polls on February 5, with the results of February 8. Delhi will attend a three -corners which should have an impact on national policy.
The AAM AADMI party (AAP) is in the running to go back to power, while its rivals from the Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party and the Congress hope to overthrow it. It is a battle with high issues for the three parties.
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AAP is falling as a third term
The AAP managed by Arvind Kejriwal leaves no stone not returned to preserve power in the national capital. Delhi is the place where the AAP was born from the India against corruption (IAC) movement in 2012.
A year later, the AAP ousted the Congress of Power in the UT, winning 28 of the 70 seats of the Assembly, with a share of voting of 29.49%. Kejriwal trained the government with external support from the congress. However, his minority government only lasted 49 days.
Kejriwal then led his party to spectacular victories in the Delhi Assembly elections in 2015 and 2020, winning 67 and 62 seats, respectively.
In the 2015 assembly elections, the BJP has managed to win only three seats and a 32.19% voting share and the congress attracted a white, with a share of voting less than 10%. The party led by Kejriwal has set up an overwhelming voting share of 54.34%.
The Detount of the AAP seat decreased in 2020, but the party maintained a share of voting of 53.57%. He took advantage of the congress price, which lost its electoral base of poor and lower -class voters.
Kejriwal especially on his governance file, his social protection plans and his subsidies to win the February 2025 elections.
The AAP, which faces its most difficult battle to date, launched its electoral campaign months ago. He has already declared all the candidates for the 70 seats of the Assembly in Delhi. Many seated deputies have been abandoned, while the seats of some like the former deputy Manish Sisodia have been modified.
The power party disputes the surveys on the face of its national candidate Kejriwal, giving the electoral slogan of ‘Phir Laayege Kejriwal‘.
Until a few months ago, the senior management of the AAP, including Kejriwal and Sisodia, was in prison for corruption. While the deputy for Kalkaji of Aap Atishi is the chief minister of Delhi, Kejriwal said that he is the candidate of the Party for the first job in the next elections.
To court the voters, the AAP promised to pay women of 2,100 rupees per month if they are elected in power. He also promised to provide free treatment to people aged 60 and over the government and private hospitals in Delhi under the Sanjeevani Yojana.
The AAP also expects to collect political dividends on water and power grants, and health care reforms.
However, the difficult fight of the BJP and the aggressive campaign of the congress could harm its chances.
If the Congress revives its dispersed voters base, it could play a sports in the G or the AAP and benefit the Safran Party.
For AAP, a victory for a third consecutive term would add wings to its national ambitions, which gives it an advantage over the congress in the Indian block.
What is at stake for BJP, Congress?
The BJP is the main opponent of the AAP in the polls of the Delhi Assembly. He has not yet declared a CM face and fights the elections on the face of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Safran party remained out of power in Delhi for more than two decades. While the BJP won the seven seats in Delhi in the last three Lok Sabha elections, it has not won the Assembly elections at the UT since 1998.
Prime Minister Modi has set the campaign tone for the BJP in his speeches while inaugurating major infrastructure projects for Delhi. Operating to AAP, he raised the party’s slogan: “AAP-DA Nahi Sahenge, Badal Ke Rahenge (We will not tolerate this disaster, we will bring a change). »»
For the BJP, the Delhi elections are a prestigious battle. After a reduction in the mandate during the Lok Sabha elections from last year, the Safran party rebounded during the elections of the Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly, winning the two.
However, Delhi remained elusive for the BJP. The AAP tries to wedge the saffron party on the absence of a CM face in the city. About Indian ExpressThe BJP relies on its basis of voters – the upper middle class, commercial communities and Punjabi – and the support of a section of Purvchali voters to defeat the AAP in Delhi. He is now making efforts to also attract the lower middle class, the dalits and the poor to wear the final blow.
A triumph in Delhi would further increase the morale of the BJP frame and eliminate the winds from the sails of the opposition block in India.
The Congress, which was the dominant force in Delhi under Sheila Dikshit of 1998 and 2013, is now fighting for relevance in the national capital, according to Theprint.
The unit of the Delhi congress is assailed by organizational weakness and leadership challenges. The great Old Party, who is an ally of the AAP in the Indian block, presents himself against the party of Kejriwal in Delhi. To combat Kejriwal’s financial aid for women, Congress announced Pyari Didi Yojana by virtue of which he will provide a monthly allocation of Rs 2,500 to women if she was voted in power.
#WATCH | # Delhielections2025 | The deputy for karnataka cm dk shivakumar says: “Today, I am here to launch the program” Pyari Didi “. I am convinced that Congress will form the government in Delhi and we will provide Rs 2500 to Rs to women, and it will be decided in the same first meeting of the cabinet … pic.twitter.com/zrfchvb2g3
– Ani (@ani) January 6, 2025
The Congress has so far announced 48 candidates for the next elections. About Indian Express Sources, the national management always hopes to forge an alliance with the AAP in the polls of the Assembly, but its Delhi unit is reluctant.
Congress has no credible face in Delhi. While the senior leaders of other parties took the path of the campaign, Rahul Gandhi of Congress and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have not yet discussed public rallies in the national capital.
For the congress, a humiliating defeat in Delhi would rub more salt in his injury to lose Haryana and the Maharashtra, the states he expected to win. Delhi Loss will also damage his position in the India group.
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