A day after the BJP, the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress told Lieutenent Governor Najeeb Jung that they want fresh elections in Delhi, the three main parties in the national capital went into a huddle to prepare for the polls, likely by February next year. The AAP, which made a historical debut in the last Assembly elections with party chief Arvind Kejriwal leading the government for 49 days before resigning in February, held a meeting of its senior leaders to discuss their strategy of winning the national capital back. Kejriwal, who later lost the Lok Sabha election in Varanasi to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has repeatedly said that he made a mistake by quitting. We appeal to the people to make us win with clear majority so we can ease the troubles they faced in the past months, AAP leader Manish Sisodia said. The AAP and the Congress are rooting for elections in Delhi along with Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir, where a five-phased election is scheduled to begin later this month. We welcome polls in Delhi. Thats what the Congress wanted all along, Congress spokesperson Sandeep Dikshit said. The BJP, which emerged as the single largest party but fell short of a simple majority in December last year, is hoping for the Modi magic to help it win Delhi now. We are prepared for polls. Under the BJPs development vision and Modijis leadership, we will fight the polls, Prabhat Jha, incharge of Delhi BJP, said. On Monday, the months of political uncertainty in the national capital came to an end with the three parties telling Jung that no party was in a position to form the government in the hung 70-member Assembly and that they wanted fresh elections to resolve the Delhi deadlock. After Jung wrote to President Pranab Mukherjee, the latter has given his nod for the dissolution of the Assembly.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 08:18:16 +0000
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