After a ferociously fought month-long election campaign, option bound up in municipal firms on a blazing Sunday, with around 53.53 per cent turnout, kind of like the scene in 2012 polls. however the general enthusiasm was sluggish because the vote swaybacked compared to the assembly polls that befell in 2013 and 2015, respectively, and the 2014 Lok Sabha election.
In the 2015 Assembly election, the turnout was 67.13 per cent, and, in 2013, it was 65.93 percent. In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, it was 65.07 percent.
“Around 54 per cent voting was recorded in the MCD elections,” said State Election Commissioner (SEC) SK Srivastava, adding that it almost touched the figure of the last corporation election in 2012.
After a ferociously fought month-long election campaign, option bound up in municipal firms on a blazing Sunday, with around 53.53 per cent turnout, kind of like the scene in 2012 polls. however, the general enthusiasm was sluggish because the vote swaybacked compared to the assembly polls that befell
This shows that almost 1/2 the city set to remain home. whereas senior voters braved the warmth to vote, kids were hardly seen in polling booths through the day. whereas the streets remained quiet, the election vigour may well be felt in some places, together with the walled town, rural areas, unauthorised colonies and slum clusters. In upmarket and materialistic localities, there have been low turnouts.
The middle and upper middle class, who often take to Twitter and other social media platforms to air their grievances, did not turn up in large numbers.
The turnout was the maximum in the East, followed by North and South. Clearly, the poor and low-income settlements came out to vote in large numbers, compared to the upper middle class and those in upscale colonies.
Even before the first leg of polling ended, AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal raked up a controversy, saying: “There are reports from all over Delhi about EVM malfunction and people with voter slips not being allowed to vote. What is State Election Commission doing?” The stakes are very high for AAP since it not only lost the Punjab and Goa assembly elections, but also the Rajouri Garden assembly poll on April 13.
Two years ago, AAP won the state election dramatically, losing just three of Delhi’s 70 seats -- all to the BJP. This is AAP’s first political test on its home turf since the sweep in 2015.
Former AAP leader Yogendra Yadav, who recently launched Swaraj India, which is also contesting the corporation polls, has said the MCD polls will be a referendum on the Delhi government, and if the AAP fails to win even 50 per cent seats, Kejriwal should resign. When asked if the results would be a referendum on his government, the chief minister said: “We will see after the result is declared.”
The Congress hopes to resurrect itself in