Arvind Kejriwal and his Cabinet will take oath on Saturday at the historic Ramlila Maidan -the protest venue of the anti-graft campaigners over three years ago – even as various departments started work on a roadmap to implement AAP’s 70-point election manifesto.
As he prepares to take over the reins of Delhi, Kejriwal, accompanied by senior leader Manish Sisodia, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sought his help in addressing various problems facing the city. The Chief Minister-designate also urged Modi to grant full statehood to Delhi to overcome the perennial problem of multiplicity of authorities.
Earlier on Thursday, Kejriwal, in a meeting with senior party leaders, finalised the list of the cabinet ministers which was later sent to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung.
Arvind Kejriwal will be heading a seven-member AAP cabinet which will include his close confidante Manish Sisodia as Deputy Chief Minister and four new faces, party sources said on Thursday. There will be no woman in the new cabinet.
The party has submitted a list of the seven cabinet ministers to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung. The swearing in scheduled for Saturday. The party is understood to have decided to induct Jitendra Tomar (Tri Nagar MLA), Sandeep Kumar (Sultanpuri Majra) and Asim Ahmed Khan (Matia Mahal)- the only minority face- in the government.
Name of Karawal Nagar MLA Kapil Mishra was doing the rounds for a ministerial berth but was later replaced by senior Political Affairs Committee member and Babarpur MLA Gopal Rai.
All the four are first time legislators and the decision to induct them was taken at AAP Political Affairs Committee meeting in the wee hours today, sources said.
In a major political event that may well have major repercussions for the national firmament, Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) proved there is much truth in the ‘David vs Goliath’ story to beat Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress by scripting a landslide victory, winning 67 of the 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly elections, stopping PM Narendra Modi and his, what looked like, unstoppable pan-India ride to power.
Aam Aadmi Party will not send invites to the leaders of any political parties or chief ministers of any state to attend Arvind Kejriwal’s oath taking ceremony on Saturday.
The party said it had invited only to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu and seven MPs representing Delhi in the Lok Sabha for the ceremony at Ramlila Maidan.
“Although we have invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu for the oath-taking ceremony, these ministers are from the Central government. The Delhi government wants cooperation from the Centre for smooth functioning.
“Apart from it, we will not extend invites to any political party or chief ministers of any other state. The seven BJP MPs will be invited as per the protocol,” said a senior AAP leader.
Chief Minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal, whose Aam Aadmi Party decimated the rivals in the Delhi Assembly election, today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and invited him for the swearing-in ceremony at Ramlila Maidan on February 14. However, the Prime Minister expressed his inability as he would be out of the city on that day.
Arvind Kejriwal had met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh at his residence on Wednesday and discussed the issue of full statehood for Delhi and other agendas.
The BJP’s humiliation was complete with its Chief Ministerial face Kiran Bedi losing in the traditional stronghold of Krishna Nagar which was long held by party veteran Harsh Vardhan. The BJP won a paltry three seats as all its veterans had to bite the dust. The party gambled on Kiran Bedi but relied mostly on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s image, which still did not work for the party.
As a result of Delhites gussa, on the other hand, Congress even failed to win a single seat.
The scale of AAP’s victory was reminiscent of the victories recorded by the Sikkim Sangram Party (SSP) which won all the 32 seats in the assembly while the JD (U)-BJP alliance won 206 of the 243 seats in 2010. In the 1991 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, the AIADMK-Congress alliance won 225 of the 234 seats while in subsequent elections the DMK-Congress alliance won 221 of 234 seats.
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal will now take oath as Delhi Chief Minister on February 14 at the Ramlila Grounds, the platform that launched him during the days of India Against Corruption, exactly one year after he stepped down.
Delhi Elections 2015 aftermath
Thursday: 12/02/2015
9.00 pm: Aam Aadmi Party will not send invites to the leaders of any political parties or chief ministers of any state to attend Arvind Kejriwal’s oath taking ceremony on Saturday.
8.00 pm: Delhi’s chief minister designate Arvind Kejriwal is down with high fever and had to cancel his some meetings today,
5.30 pm: Arvind Kejriwal will be heading a seven-member AAP cabinet which will include his close confidante Manish Sisodia as Deputy Chief Minister and four new faces, party sources said today. There will be no woman in the new cabinet.
10.30 am: Delhi CM designate also talks about full statehood to Delhi with the Prime Minister.
10.20: Arvind Kejriwal told the Prime Minister that both the Centre and the state government enjoy strong majority, therefore, it is a golden opportunity for both to work together to make Delhi a better city.
10.15 am: Delhi’s Chief Minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed a range of issues related to the national capital including granting full statehood.
8.10 am: Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia, a close confidant of party chief Arvind Kejriwal, is all set to be the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi.
Delhi election results 2015 highlights:
Day after D-Day: 11/02/2015
20.30 pm: Delhi’s chief minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal meets President Pranab Mukherjee and thanks him for his “blessings and guidance”. The President gifts Kejriwal two books – ‘Constitution of India’ and ‘Thoughts and Reflections’, authored by him. “We met the President this time. We thanked him for his guidance and blessings. When we had been demanding dissolution of the Delhi Legislative Assembly, there was a lot of cooperation from him… He expressed happiness and gifted Arvindji two books,” Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisoda said.
20.00 pm: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) founder founder-member Shanti Bhushan attacks Arvind Kejriwal yet again, accuses him of accepting “tainted” money and giving tickets to candidates who were prepared to buy votes. He also alleges the AAP chief had “abandoned” all principles of inner party democracy and asked the party to “apply course correction” and come back to the path of clean politics. “He gave a large number of tickets to people who had amassed a lot of wealth by questionable means and were prepared to buy votes by distributing money and liquor,” Bhushan wrote in a blog. “He (Kejriwal) also accepted tainted money and abandoned all principles of inner party democracy,” Bhushan said.
AAP founder and CM candidate Arvind Kejriwal watches a TVF satire on himself on his phone while travelling to the Patel Nagar office to attend the poll results in new Delhi on tuesday. (Express photo by Prem Nath Pandey)
19.30 pm: Anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare not to attend swearing-in ceremony of Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday despite Delhi’s chief minister-elect personally extending an invitation to him. Hazare’s aide Dadda Awari says, “Kejriwal called Anna yesterday and requested him to attend the swearing-in but he expressed his inability…. Anna extended his best wishes to Kejriwal for running a good government.”
19.00 pm: New York Times editorial explains the tenuous position Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) find themselves in in an editorial ‘A Defeat for Prime Minister Modi’: “Fresh from the diplomatic high of a successful summit meeting with President Obama, Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought down to earth by domestic politics.” It added Modi and his BJP were “crushed” in the election for New Delhi’s 70-member state assembly.
18.00 pm: Delhi’s Chief Minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal today meets Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and raises the issue of full statehood to the national capital. “We discussed the topic of statehood as many issues will find its way if Delhi is granted full statehood. Both AAP and BJP had promised it in their election manifestos. “As there is a BJP government at the Centre with full majority and an AAP government is being formed in Delhi, there should not be any problem in fulfilling the promise. This will be the best thing for Delhi,” Sisodia says.
Opinion poll: Check out how people voted on Narendra Modi and Kiran Bedi issue :
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17.30 pm: Union Social Justice Minister Thaawar Chand Gehlot says, “Arvind Kejriwal was preparing for elections for the last one year and he had made promises to people of Delhi, which are difficult to fulfil”. He adds, “the people of Delhi would realise it after an year”.
16.30 pm: “The stupendous victory of AAP in the Delhi election is a total rejection of BJP and the leadership of Narendra Modi,” CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat says. He says that the results have also shown that people are ready to vote for “viable” alternatives apart from Congress and BJP.
16.00 pm: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal claims that Shiromani Akali Dal’s (SAD) performance in Delhi polls has shown improvement over the previous elections in the capital. “SAD performance in the just concluded assembly elections in Delhi have shown an improvement over the previous elections, in terms of both vote-share and the number of votes polled by the party’s candidates,” Badal claims.
15.30 pm: “Modi ka mayajaal toot gaya (Modi’s magic has ended). His much hyped development agenda stands exposed,” Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia says.
Market sheds its AAP fear?
15.00: “The result was the outcome of people’s strong sentiments against BJP and Prime Minister Modi and along with that Congress votes were also lost,” Congress leader Oommen Chandy says.
14.00 pm: AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Siodia meet Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu. Sisodia says, “We have discussed four big issues with the minister. Firstly, the issues of the poor such as compensation for them, we will need central government’s help in that. Secondly, the issue of unauthorised colonies on which the Centre recently passed a resolution. So in order to take it forward help will be needed from MCD, DDA and the Centre. We told him that for more schools, colleges, hospitals and parking, a lot of land will be needed so whatever land is available with DDA, we have requested for it.”
13.30 pm: Akhilesh Yadav reacts to Delhi Assembly election results, says “I congratulate people of Delhi for using their wisdom in Delhi polls. They have showed the way, people of UP will be repeating in (state polls)”.
12.00 pm: “On behalf of the DMK, I convey my hearty congratulations to you and AAP on the landslide victory in the capital Delhi Assembly elections,” Karunanidhi said in his letter to Delhi Chief Minister designate Kejriwal.
11.00: Shiv Sena targets BJP leaders including Modi for “negative” election campaign, says, “Along with Modi, all BJP leaders mocked at (Congress Vice-President) Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal in their speeches. Ultimately, the BJP had to bear the consequences of this negative campaign. Are the Delhi results a start of a new era in politics? Why did people desert the BJP? Unemployment rate has not gone down, inflation is persistent, homeless haven’t got homes and poll promises haven’t been fulfilled.”
11.00 pm: “The BJP, which won a resounding majority in the Lok Sabha elections has been turned into ‘dirt’ by the ‘broom- wielding’ Aam Aadmi Party. BJP leaders do not even need fingers to count the number of seats they won. Putting the blame of defeat on Kiran Bedi isn’t right,” Shiv Sena says in a scalding editorial in its mouthpiece ‘Saamana’.
Results Day: 10/02/2015
9.00 pm: In the backdrop of BJP’s shocking defeat in the Delhi Assembly election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held deliberations with his senior Cabinet colleagues from the party.
8.45 pm: Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely today tendered his resignation to party president Sonia Gandhi after taking moral responsibility for the party’s worst-ever performance in the Assembly elections.
8.30 pm: “AAP has registered historic ‘maha vijay’. I congratulate Kejriwal on this victory and hope he will fulfil the promises made to the people of Delhi,” Ramdev told reporters.
8.15 pm: “AAP wins one of the biggest electoral victories in Indian history,” tweeted director Pritish Nandy.
8.00 pm: ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ actor Farhan Akhtar congratulated AAP, “People of Delhi gracefully say ‘Pehle AAP’. Congratulations to Arvind Kejriwal and his team. Time to live up to the peoples hope & trust.”
7.45 pm: Shazia Ilmi said, “The message that AAP wanted to give people, they indeed managed to take it home. Arvind Kejriwal has been campaigning for the past four months, their radio jingle playing for the past four months. They put up hoarding three months before. And their political message was very clear,” she said.
7.30 pm: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue M G Vaidya said this should not be viewed as AAP’s win. “This should not be seen as AAP’s victory but a win for anti-BJPism. And the face of this is AAP,” he said.
7.15 pm: Arvind Kejriwal meets Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung.
7.00 pm: It was a double feat for AAP, which not only pulverised the Opposition by bagging 67 out of 70 Delhi Assembly seats but also nearly doubled its vote share since last elections to a phenomenal 54.3 per cent. Meanwhile, BJP’s vote share dipped by one per cent to 32.2 as compared to last year’s vote share.
6.45 pm: Arvind Kejriwal elected leader of AAP legislature party.
6.30 pm: Sorry for disappointing performance of the party. Could not gauge the mood of people: P C Chacko tells Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
6.15 pm: National Conference today congratulated Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for its “glorious victory” in Delhi Assembly polls saying BJP’s decline signified the rejection of “communal and divisive” politics in the country.
6.00 pm: Congress leader Rajiv Shukla today favoured “drastic steps” to revamp the party in wake of the unprecedented poll debacle in Delhi but steered clear of questions of bringing Priyanka Gandhi to the fore. “The results are disappointing. Drastic steps are needed to strengthen the party. Both BJP and Congress should learn lessons,” Shukla added.
5.45 pm: Union minister Giriraj Singh, who is seen as a Hindutva voice said, “We have not lost this election. Like Abhimanyu was killed through deceit by enemies, BJP has been defeated by polarisation of pseudo-secular forces. Members of a particular community were polarised before elections.”
5.30 pm: AICC in-charge for Delhi PC Chacko offers to resign following party’s worst-ever performance.
5.15 pm: Final tally: Aam Aadmi Party wins 67 seats in 70-member Delhi Assembly; BJP gets 3.
Check out the opinion poll that was held before voting day:
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5.00 pm: The loss opened a schism within the BJP too with senior leader and Haryana minister Anil Vij today slamming the party’s strategy, saying it should not have “imported leaders”. If the party had concentrated on building leaders rather than importing them, then this would not have been the position of the party.”
4.45 pm: The reaction on the social media was stark too: Actress Shabana Azmi posted, “The indian voter deserves all our respect.Congratulations to #AAP. Dilli ne keh diya ab tumhare hawale watan saathiyo.ball is in your court (sic).”
4.45 pm: In customary fashion, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray used some plainspeak to target BJP. He said, “It would not be wrong to call the results a defeat for Narendra Modi. But the people of Delhi have shown that tsunami is mightier than a wave.”
4.30 pm: BJP trotted out Union Minister Piyush Goyal and he said, “I will not hold anybody responsible for BJP’s defeat. But I do not feel that Modi wave has faded.”
4.15 pm: A chastened Congress reacted: This loss has registered strongly with us and we will take all steps to establish our connect with the people
4 pm: Delhi Election results update: 70/70 results in; AAP wins 67 seats, BJP 3, Congress 0, others 0.
3.45 pm: Delhi Election results update: 63/70 results in; AAP wins 60 seats (7 leading); BJP 3
3.20 pm: Delhi Election results update: 60/70 results in; AAP wins 57 seats (10 leading); BJP 3
3.05 pm: Delhi Election results update: 56/70 results in; AAP wins 53 seats (14 leading); BJP 3
2.30 pm: Delhi Election results update: 55/70 results in; AAP wins 52 seats (15 leading); BJP 3
2.20 pm: Election results update: 46/70 results in; AAP wins 44 seats (23 leading); BJP 2 (1 leading)
2.00 pm: Election results update: 41/70 results in; AAP wins 39 seats (28 leading); BJP 2 (1 leading)
1.50 pm: AAP leader Manish Sisodia wins from Patparganj constituency defeating BJP’s Vinod Kumar Binny by over 24,000 votes.
1.45 pm: Election results update: 32/70 results in; AAP wins 30 seats (37 leading); BJP 2 (1 leading)
1.40 pm: AAP’s Jarnail Singh defeats the richest candidate from Akali Dal Sirsa from Rajouri Garden
1.35 pm: I want to apologize to the BJP for not living up to the party’s expectations, says Kiran Bedi
1.30 pm: Election results update: 28/70 results in; AAP wins 26 seats (41 leading); BJP 2 (1 leading)
1.25 pm: Arvind Kejriwal will take oath as Delhi Chief Minister on February 14 at Ramlila Maidan, says AAP leader Ashutosh
1.10 pm: election results update: 17/70 results in; AAP wins 15 seats (51 leading); BJP 2 (1 leading)
12.55 pm: AAP wins 13 (leading 53); BJP 2 (1 leading); INLD 0 (1 leading)
12.50 pm: Kiren Bedi loses from Krishna Nagar constituency
12.45: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal wins from the prestigious New Delhi constituency
12.45 pm: AAP leader Gopal Rai wins Babarpur seat with more than 35,000 votes; Another AAP candidate Alka Lamba wins from Chandni Chowk.
12.40 pm: Jai Kishan, the five-time Congress MLA from Sultanpur Majra, is in third place.
12.40 pm: I must acknowledge it. It is a decisive victory, says BJP’s Ravi Shankar Prasad
12.30 pm: AAP wins in Hari Nagar, Central Delhi
12.20 pm: Perhaps the biggest victory in Delhi, Ajay Dutt of AAP wins Ambedkar Nagar by more than 40,000 votes.
12.15 pm: BJP’s Vijender Gupta wins Rohini
12.10 pm: BJP leader Jagidsh Mukhi defeated by AAP’s Rajesh Rishi from Janakpuri constituency; Another BJP candidate Vijender Gupta wins from Rohini.
12.05: Naresh Balyan of the AAP leads in Uttam Nagar by 13,000 votes.
AAP leads by a huge margin in both Patel Nagar and Sadar Bazar. BJP way behind. congress nowhere in the battle.
12 noon: Latest part positions – AAP leads in 63 seats, BJP in 6, Congress 0, others 1
11.55: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi congratulate Arvind Kejriwal on dream results in Delhi Elections 2015
11.50 am: I salute the people of Delhi, they have achieved something spectacular: Arvind Kejriwal
We have to serve the people of Delhi. I am a very small man alone, we have to do it together. This Delhi belongs to everyone: Arvind Kejriwal.
11.45: Arvind Kejriwal gives addresses public, says we took the virtuous path.
Kejriwal’s ‘Paanch Saal Kejriwal’, ‘Bharat Maata ki Jai’, ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ resonate amid sound of fire crackers.
Read: Arvind Kejriwal Profile: Delhi CM-desgnate makes a royal come back
11,40 am: Congratulations pour in. Omar Abdullah tweets: Wow, well done #Delhi & well done @AamAadmiParty. Good luck to @ArvindKejriwal for the next 5 years.
Shazia Ilmi tweets: Congratulations to every Aap worker and leader. Do well. Wish u well
11.40 am: AAP wins Ambedkar Nagar seat
11.30 am: Key constituencies: New Delhi- Kejriwal leading by 19,000 votes; Malviya Nagar – AAP’s Somnath Bharti leading by 4,000 votes;
Dwarka – AAP’s Adarsh Shastri leading by 20,000 votes; Krishna Nagar – BJP’s Kiran Bedi leading by less than 1,000 votes; Chandni Chowk – AAP’s Alka Lamba leading by 17,000 votes; Janakpuri – BJP’s Jagdish Mukhi trailing by 11,000 votes
10.25 am: AAP describes its electoral win in Delhi Elections 2015 as a “victory of honesty”. It is the victory of honesty, says AAP leader Manish Sisodia as results show huge victory for the party.
11.20 am: Even if BJP gets less than 7 seats we will give LOP to BJP, says AAP’s Kumar Vishwas.
11.15 am: 5 Saal Kejriwal resonates louder than ever with AAP making leads in 66 seats.
11.10: BJP executive committee likely to be disbanded
11.05 am: Live Delhi election results 2015 – AAP lead in 66, BJP left stranded at 3. Congress losing in all seats
11 am: Kiran Bedi is now leading by 1,000 votes in Krishna Nagar.
10.58 am: Anna Hazare congratulates Arvind Kejriwal over AAP’s performance in Delhi Polls, Says BJP has lost its credibility
10.55 am: BJP needs 7 seats in Delhi assembly to be able to appoint a leader of opposition. 6 leads until now.
10.45 am: Ajay Maken assumes responsibility for Congress’s disastrous outing in the Delhi election results. Maken says he will resign from the post of general secretary of the party.
10.40 am: Latest party positions – AAP leading in 62 seats, BJP in 7, Congress 0, Others 1
10.35 am: Former AAP minister Saurabh Bhardwaj leading from the prestigious Greater Kailash constituency. Congress candidate Sharmistha Mukherjee, daughter of President Pranab Mukherjee in 3rd place
10.30 am: Kiran Bedi congratulates Arvind Kejriwal, says “full marks to Arvind” on AAP victory
Full marks to Arvind. Congratulations. Now take Delhi to the heights it belongs to. Make it a world class city..
— Kiran Bedi (@thekiranbedi) February 10, 2015
10.25 am: Arvind Kejriwal wishes to meet PM Narendra Modi; PM Modi invites AAP leader for tea PM assures Kejriwal of Centre’s complete support in the development of Delhi. 10.2o am: Lead in for 70 seats – AAP takes mammoth lead in 62 seats, BJP in 8, Congress 0.
10.15 am: As BJP heads for humiliating loss in Delhi elections 2015, PM Narendra Modi calls AAP chief Narendra Modi to congratulate him. Here’s what PM Narendra Modi tweeted:
Spoke to @ArvindKejriwal & congratulated him on the win. Assured him Centre’s complete support in the development of Delhi. — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 10, 2015
10.15 am: Delhi Congress President Arvinder Singh Lovely sends his resignation to Congress President Sonia Gandhi after poll debacle
10.12 am: Even though we lost Delhi elections so badly, we want to salute Delhi people… we take responsibility of the defeat: says Congress leader PC Chacko
10.10 am: BJP says said the Delhi Election results 2015 were a referendum on Arvind Kejriwal and could not be seen as reflection of the Narendra Modi government’s performance.
10.08 am: Change from 2013 polls – (+) 28 for AAP, (-13) for BJP, (-8) for Congress
10.05 am: Dwarka round 3, AAP’s Adarsh Shastri leads 17000 votes while BJP trails at 9000 votes. INC 3205 Round 3 – AAP leads in Krishna Nagar, Patparganj and Trilokpuri in East Delhi. Kiran Bedi trails in Krishna Nagar
9.55 am: Leads are in for 70/70 seats: AAP leading in 59 seats; BJP 10, Congress 1
9.48 am: Arvind Kejriwal leading by more than 3,000 votes in New Delhi seat. BJP’s Nupur Sharma is second and Congress’s Kiran Walia is third.
9.45 am: Leads are in for 69/70 seats: AAP leading in 55 seats; BJP 12, Congress 1
9.40 am: Sadar Bazar, which to Congress is like Krishna Nagar is to BJP, seems to be going the AAP way. Ajay Maken, head of the Congress election campaign, is trailing by over 13,000 votes.
9.38 am: Kiran Bedi is trailing in Krishna Nagar, a seat which the BJP has never lost
9.35 am: Lead are in for 68 seats; AAP leads in 54 seats, BJP in 12, Congress 1
9.30 am: AAP’s Manish Sisodia leads with votes 3660 inPatpargaj; BJP’s Vinodkumar Binny trails at 2703 after round one.
Join us live for a Hangout http://t.co/otTBoBAxio #DelhiDecides — Aam Aadmi Party (@AamAadmiParty) February 10, 2015
9.25: Trends show landslide victory for AAP (+19 change from 2013 polls) 9.25 am: Lead are in for 64 seats – AAP lead in 46 seats, BJP 15, Congress 3 9.20 am: Aam Aadmi Party’s Rakhi Birla starts with huge lead from Mongolpuri, Congress stands 2nd 9.15 am: 56 out of 70 seats in – AAP leads in 42 seats; BJP in 11, Congress in 3 9.10 am: BJP CM candidate Kiran Bedi trailing in Krishna Nagar 9.05 am: Leads in for 50 seats – AAP leads in 36 seats, BJP in 11, Congress in 4 Talks of a landslide victory for the Aam Aadmi Party have already hit television stations. 9 am: Congress leader Ajay Maken trailing in Sadar Bazar
8.58 am: AAP’s Naresh Yadav leading in Mehrauli 8.56 am: AAP leading in initial count at Seelampur, Babarpur, Ghonda, Karawal Nagar 8.55 am: Lead for 47 seats in: AAP leading in 30 seats, BJP in 12, Congress in 5; Awaited: 23 seats 8.55 am: Celebration breaks out in Aam Aadmi Party office
.@tweetfromraghu with the birthday boy @DrKumarVishwas! Victory pose as #DelhiDecides! pic.twitter.com/r5PXWSBCBD — Aam Aadmi Party (@AamAadmiParty) February 10, 2015
8.55 am: Defeat is mine, it’s not a reflection on PM Narendra Modi, say BJP’ CM candidate Kiran Bedi (Read story)
8.52: Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi party doubles lead over BJP; +7 from 3013 polls
8.50 am: Leads for 39 seats in; AAP leads in 23 seats; BJP in 11; Congress in 5
8.45 am: President Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter Sharmishtha trails AAP’s Saurabh Bharadwaj in Greater Kailash
8.45 am: Leads for 33 seats in: AAP leads in 19 seats, BJP 9, Congress4 8.42 am: Delhi wants an honest government: AAP’s Patparganj candidate Manish Sisodia says as counting of votes begins in East Delhi
8.40 am: Lead for 26 seat in: AAP leading in 14 seats; BJP 8, Congress 3, others 1
8.35 am: Let’s wait for the full results to come in, says Congress’s Ajay Maken.
8.35 am: Kejriwal leading in NewDelhi 8.34 am: AAP candidate and former Minister Rakhi Birla was leading in Mangolpuri constituency
8.32 am: In Patparganj, AAP’s Manish Sisodia leads as BJP’s Vinod Binny (formerly of AAP) trails 8.30 am: AAP leader Somnath Bharti leads in Malavia Nagar
8.30 am: Lead for 22 seats in: AAP leading in 11, BJP in 8, Congress 2, Others 1
8.20 am: Lead in 16 seats are in: AAP, BJP leading in 7 (-3) and 6 seats respectively
8.16: Here’e what AAP tweeted:
Today #DelhiDecides #AAP all set for the big day! pic.twitter.com/AqcBKPRVHi — Aam Aadmi Party (@AamAadmiParty) February 10, 2015
8.15: BJP and AAP both leading in 2 seats each 8.10 am: Kiran Bedi is leading in Krishna Nagar 8.10: AAP’s Yogender Yadav says David likely to overcome the Goliath 8.08: CEC says its has assured EVMs can’t be tampered with 8.07: BJP says Narendra Modi factor will world in Delhi Elections 8.05 am: BJP takes first lead in Rohini. The seat belonged to AAP in last elections. 8 am: Counting votes for Delhi Elections 2015 starts 7.50 am: Here’s what BJP CM candidate tweeted before counting of votes:
Here is scene outside my home at 7.30 Am. I don’t think anyone can envy the media profession! pic.twitter.com/nsGcsM7Jpr — Kiran Bedi (@thekiranbedi) February 10, 2015
7.50 am: Here’s what Arvind Kejriwal tweeted ahead of elections results:
All the very best Delhiites. Do pray. Prayers are v powerful. — Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) February 10, 2015
Addressing his supporters after AAP’s massive mandate, a jubilant Arvind Kejriwal says he salutes the people of Delhi as they have achieved something spectacular. “We have to serve the people of Delhi… I am a very small man alone, we have to do it together. This Delhi belongs to everyone,” says Kejriwal. Describing its electoral win in Delhi as a “victory of honesty” and a mandate against “ignorant, offensive and negative politics”, AAP urges its supporters to maintain restraint. AAP leaders said the party will not leave its “decency” and will not tease those who lost. Talking to media, the Kejriwal says AAP government will gun for corruption and VIP culture in the national capital. As the voting trends trickled in showing a massive landslide for AAP, Modi called Kejriwal over phone to congratulate him on the victory and invites him for tea. He assured Kejriwal of Centre’s complete support in the development of Delhi. A ‘sulking’ Anna Hazare does a U-turn and congratulates Arvind Kejriwal over AAP’s performance in Delhi elections 2015. He said BJP has lost its credibility. Bedi also congratulated Kejriwal saying “full marks to Arvind.” Maken, whose party has been decimated in the elections, resigned as Congress General Secretary taking full responsibility for the debacle. As trends cemented what exit polls had foreseen, and as announcement of AAP’s victory neared, Kiran Bedi sought to shield PM Narendra Modi from facing the flak for the disastrous party campaign and said said she will take responsibility for BJP’s defeat. “We (me and Arvind Kejriwal) both are competing. We both are playing a match. When we play, only person can win. If the party wins, it will be a collective victory and if the party loses, I will take the responsibility,” Bedi reiterated as reporters at her residence asked ‘what went wrong’. The defeat for BJP was all the more bitter because it had won all the seven Lok Sabha seats in the last year’s general elections. The party’s gamble of making Bedi its Chief Ministerial candidate back fired. The only saving grace for the BJP was victory of its former state unit president Vijender Gupta who won from Rohini. Check out the opinion poll: [polldaddy poll=8637783] The stakes in this election are high for both BJP and AAP which had put up a spirited fight during the high-voltage campaign. Check out Live Twitter reactions on 2015 Delhi elections results: #DelhiPollResults Tweets
India Today-Cicero poll, after the end of polling, gave AAP 38 to 46 seats in the 70-member House and BJP 19 to 27 while Congress is predicted to get between three and five.
Today’s Chanakya poll on News 24 channel gave AAP a higher figure of 48 seats and 22 to BJP. The poll says Congress and allies may fail to open account.
Another poll on News Nation projected 41 to 45 seats for AAP, 23 to 27 for BJP and 1 to 3 for Congress.
In the 2013 elections, AAP had got 28 seats and had to to tie up with Congress’ 8 to form a short-lived government of 49 days in the 2013 polls. The BJP had then emerged the single largest with 32 seats.
The ABP-Nielsen poll said that AAP will get 39 while BJP 28 and Congress 3. Zee TV-C Voter poll projected 31 to 39 seats for AAP and 27 to 35 seats for BJP. Congress gets 2 to 4 in the poll. The highest number of 53 seats for AAP has been predicted by India News-Axis poll, which gave BJP 17 and Congress up to 2.
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