New Delhi: The BJP candidates were leading in all seven Lok Sabha seats of Delhi in the first three hours of counting for the 2019 general elections on Thursday, while Congress was on the second spot in four and the Aam Aadmi Party on three constituencies.
 
In seats ranging from East Delhi, North East Delhi to South Delhi and New Delhi, all of BJP’s candidates are leading in the race.
 
From North East Delhi, which is a contest between political heavyweights, Manoj Tiwari, who is BJP’s state unit chief is leading with Congress’s Delhi chief and former chief minister Sheila Dikshit, trailing behind.
 
At 3 pm on May 23, projections showed BJP’s Manoj Tiwari leading with 5,08,976 votes (55.53% vote share). INC’s Sheila Dikshit was seen trailing with 2,41,124 votes (26.31% vote share). AAP’s Dilip Pandey was third with 1,24,304 votes (13.56% vote share.)
 
Tiwari, a popular Bhojpuri actor and singer, had defeated AAP’s Anand Kumar in this constituency in 2014 with a margin of over 1.4 lakh votes.
 
Tiwari, hopeful of yet another win, has already asked the party cadre in North East Delhi to begin preparations for the Assembly polls next year, according to The Hindu.
 
In East Delhi, which saw a controversial campaign between AAP’s Atishi and BJP’s Gautam Gambhir, Gambhir was leading by over 1 lakh votes in the afternoon.
 
He was pitted against AAP candidate Atishi and Congress’ Arvinder Singh Lovely. Gambhir and Atishi were locked in a very close and keenly watched fight.
 
Punjabi folk singer and BJP candidate from North West Delhi, Hans Raj Hans is leading against AAP’s Gugan Singh and Congress’s Rajesh Lilothia.
 
From New Delhi constituency, BJP’s sitting lawmaker is leading against Congress’s Ajay Maken and AAP’s Brijesh Goyal. From South Delhi, BJP’s Ramesh Bidhuri is leading against AAP’s Raghav Chadha and boxer and Congress candidate Vijender Singh.
 
BJP’s Delhi chief Manoj Tiwari has expressed confidence of the BJP winning more than 350 seats.
 
The BJP, which had won all seven seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha seats, was leading in Chandni Chowk by 25,152 votes, East Delhi by 34,875, New Delhi by 32, 352, North East Delhi by 78,963, North West Delhi by 70,683, South Delhi by 41,640 and West Delhi by 75,664 votes as of 11 a.m., according to the Election Commission of India.
 
The AAP, which has been in power in the Delhi government since 2015, was second place in South Delhi, North West Delhi and West Delhi.

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In 2014, Modi was bestriding the election arena like a colossus Santa Claus, promising us all golden futures, jobs, good governance, money in the bank, an end to corruption…. 5 years later, an increasingly shrunken and shrill Modi is not talking either past achievements or future plans. Instead he is busy fighting the ghosts of Rajiv Gandhi who died 28 years ago, and Nehru who died 56 years ago. It took four admirals yesterday (May 9), including a former Navy Chief, to rebut some of his slurs and false allegations.

Meanwhile more and more loose-mouthed BJP electoral candidates are taking advantage of a party that seems uncertain of any of its directions except majoritarianism, to put their own unbridled slant on things – one wanted Christians and Muslims to be sterilised, another Sadhvi, a terror-accused out on bail, claimed her curses had caused the death of revered police chief Hemant Karkare, and a third, a Minister, threatened that those who didn’t vote for her would be denied development benefits. Her son meanwhile said Dalits were fit only to tie his shoe laces. Sickeningly worded flyers were circulated calling a young AAP leader with a quiet and amazing track record in turning around education in Delhi a “prostitute” of “mixed blood”. All this went un-condemned by the party and it’s leader, who was too busy shadowboxing his long dead predecessors and concocting easily verifiable false facts and figures. Adding to the unreality of things, film stars, cricketers, wrestlers, and even a society hair dresser are being fielded by all parties – page 3 glamour is considered more vote catching than socio-economic knowhow. Does this really cut ice with the public?

Other BJP worthies are calling for for a change to the Constitution. As a sign of things to come, the RSS-affiliated Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas, has sent a list of recommendations to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) demanding changes in its “baseless and biased” textbooks, and the removal of English, Urdu, and Arabic words, a poem by the revolutionary poet Pash and a couplet by Mirza Ghalib, and the thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore.

As Delhi goes to vote over the weekend, the words of Lawrence Ferlinghetti reverberate:

“Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture….”
Use that button wisely, friends.
 
 

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In this episode of – Pulse of India,  Senior Journalist Bhasha Singh spoken to the people of Trilokpuri. Residents of this area do feel that the work done by AAP in the field of health and education is good and at the same time resonate with BJP’s nationalistic pitch made in the name of national security. These elections have witnessed communal polarisation and what remains to be seen is if the people of India will cast their vote on identity politics or for better governance.

Courtesy: Newsclick.in

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