Delhi Polls on Feb 8, Results On Feb 11; 'AAP's Time Up', Says BJP

The AAP had won 67 of the assembly 70 seats in the 2015 Delhi Assembly polls.

By : ABP News Bureau | Updated at : 06 Jan 2020 04:41 PM (IST)

Delhi Assembly Elections 2020 EC To Announce Poll Dates Today At 3:30 pm Delhi Polls on Feb 8, Results On Feb 11; 'AAP's Time Up', Says BJP

The date of notification is January 14, while January 21 will be the last date of filing nominations.

The last date of withdrawal of candidature will be January 24.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said the AAP will fight the upcoming Assembly polls on the basis of its government's performance.

Delhi Assembly Elections 2020: Delhi state polls will be held in a single-phase on February 8, 2020 while the counting of votes will take place three days later on February 11, 2020, the Election Commission announced on Monday. (WATCH LIVE) Addressing a press conference this afternoon, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said, "Total electors in NCT of Delhi are 1,46,92,136 and Polling to be held at 13,750 polling stations." With the announcement of poll date, the Model Code of Conduct will come into effect in Delhi with immediate effect, Arora said. The Aam Aadmi Party had won 67 of the assembly 70 seats in the 2015 Delhi Assembly polls with the remaining three going to the BJP and the Congress failing to open its account. Delhi has a total of 1.46 crore voters. Term of the incumbent assembly expires in February 2020 and the elections have to be held before that. "We have a 5-year clean track record from education to health. We have the blue print and the vision of what we want to do in the next 5 years. We have a honest face like Arvind Kejriwal who has successfully led this city," said AAP national spokesperson Raghav Chadha told ABP News while extolling the virtues of incumbent AAP government. Speaking to reporters after announcement of poll schedule, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar, who is in-charge of Delhi BJP, said lot of welfare schemes by the Central government was not implemented in Delhi. He said the party will contest elections on a positive note highlighting the achievements of the Narendra Modi government and register a "grand" success. "Your (AAP) time is over as you have failed. We are confident of BJP's win," he added. The poll announcement comes at a time when student protests against yesterday's violence in New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) are taking place across the country even as authorities have deployed a large number of security personnel outside the prestigious campus. The JNU student body blamed Sunday's violence on the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a right-wing student body linked to ruling BJP. However, the ABVP said that its members had been attacked by left-wing groups wth many of them suffering serious injuries. ALSO READ: 'AAP Was Wiped Out In MCD And Lok Sabha Elections': Amit Shah Ahead Of Delhi Poll Announcement Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress have already begun wooing voters. The BJP hasn't yet declared its CM face for the polls against AAP's Arvind Kejriwal. Last week, Kejriwal took a swipe at the BJP saying the saffron party has seven chief ministerial candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections. It came after Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) tweeted an image of a poster wishing a "very Happy New Year to all seven chief minister candidates of Delhi BJP Gautam Gambhir, Manoj Tiwari, Vijay Goel, Hardeep Singh Puri, Harsh Vardhan, Vijender Gupta and Parvesh Singh". Kejriwal has last month released a report card, listing out top 10 achievements of the AAP government in the last five years. Prashant Kishor-led political consultancy firm I-PAC has teamed up with AAP ahead of Delhi polls. The political advocacy group had assited in electioneering campaign of Narendra Modi in 2014 when he was BJP's prime ministerial candidate. Kishor is currently the national vice-president of Bihar's Janata Dal (United), a key ally of the BJP and had recently criticised the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which his party JD(U) supported in Parliament. In 2015, the Delhi election was held in a single-phase on February 7 and the results were announced on February 10. (This is a developing story. Please refresh the page to find more updates)

Published at : 06 Jan 2020 12:56 PM (IST)

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