There is now a few days left for a few days to vote for the assembly elections in Delhi. The election campaign there is in full swing. Big leaders of all parties are campaigning fiercely to win their party candidates. The election Chaucer is laid all over Delhi. In the speculative market, big claims of defeat and victory of political parties are being made. Whose government will be formed in Delhi, then it will be known only after the counting of votes on February 8.
But this time there is a tough competition in the Delhi assembly elections. On one hand, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is engaged in an attempt to form the government for the fourth time. At the same time, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also wants his party to form a government in the National Capital Region so that the quarrel between the Center and the state is over. To say that Delhi is a Union Territory. The government and the Chief Minister here do not have full rights like other states. But being the Chief Minister of Delhi is a big deal in itself. The government of the country runs from Delhi itself. In such a situation, the importance of the government formed in Delhi cannot be denied.
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This time the role of Dalit, Jat and Gurjar voters is going to be the most important in the Delhi Assembly elections. 12 assembly seats in Delhi are reserved for Scheduled Castes. There are about 18 percent Dalit voters here. Apart from the 12 seats of Delhi, there are 18 more assembly seats where the number of Dalit voters is more than 15 percent. In such a situation, the role of Dalit voters in 30 assembly seats of Delhi is going to be important.
Bawana, Sultanpur Majra, Mangolpuri, Karol Bagh, Patel Nagar, Madipur, Deoli, Ambedkar Nagar, Trilokpuri, Kondli, Seemapuri, Gokalpur assembly seats have been reserved for Scheduled Castes in Delhi. Apart from this, there are about 15 to 20 other seats where Dalit voters play a decisive role. Therefore, Dalit voters play an important role in about 30 out of 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly. In the 2020 assembly elections, the candidates of the Aam Aadmi Party won all the 12 reserved seats. Therefore, the entire focus of the Aam Aadmi Party is on Dalit voters. Out of Delhi’s scheduled caste voters, 38 percent are Jatav and 21 percent are Valmiki.
In the last Lok Sabha election, BJP was able to win elections in only 30 seats out of the 84 Lok Sabha seats reserved across the country for scheduled caste voters. The Dalit voters had moved into the opposition camp after the India alliance’s slogan by the BJP changing the constitution. Similarly, in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party has been continuously winning all the 12 seats reserved for Scheduled Castes in the last two assembly elections. Therefore, the BJP and Congress are putting full emphasis in this election to make Scheduled Caste voters in their favor.
In addition to 12 reserved seats, the BJP has nominated Deepti Indora from two general seats Matia Mahal and Kamal Bagdi from Ballimaran. In this way, the BJP has fielded Dalit candidates on a total of 14 seats. At the same time, the Congress has also fielded Dalit candidates in 13 seats by seeing the ticket of Scheduled Caste Aruna Kumari from Narela. The strategy of BJP and Congress is to remove Dalit voters from the Aam Aadmi Party. The Aam Aadmi Party has given tickets to Scheduled Caste candidates in 12 reserved seats. In the Haryana and Maharashtra assembly elections, once again the BJP won a big victory due to the trend of Dalit voters towards BJP. Encouraged by this, the BJP is making an election strategy by making special electoral management on the seats of the Scheduled Caste voters.
The Aam Aadmi Party is occupied by the Aam Aadmi Party on Mehrauli, Mundka, Rithala, Nangloi, Matiala, Palam, Narela, Vikaspuri, Najafgarh and Bijwasan in Delhi. This time the BJP is trying to return all these 10 seats from the Aam Aadmi Party and is trying to return. The BJP has given about 14 tickets to Jat leaders this time. In which former MP Pravesh Verma is contesting in front of former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from New Delhi. Kailash Gehlot, a cabinet minister in the AAP government, is also contesting from Bijwasan on BJP ticket. With Kailash Gehlot going to BJP, AAP has no big Jat leader who can keep Jat voters connected to the party. While the BJP has made former MP Pravesh Verma standing in front of Arvind Kejriwal and made the election of Delhi interesting.
There are also a large number of Gurjar voters in Delhi. Chhatarpur, Mustafabad, Tughlakabad, Ghonda, Gokulpuri, Okhla are occupied by the Aam Aadmi Party under their influence. At the same time, BJP is occupied by Badarpur, Karawal Nagar and Palam. Former Delhi MP and big Gurjar leader Ramesh Bidhuri has made the election interesting by fielding the election against Chief Minister Atishi Marlena.
After Madanlal Khurana and Sahib Singh Verma in Delhi, only outsiders have always become the Chief Minister. People like Sushma Swaraj, Sheila Dixit, Arvind Kejriwal, Atishi Marlena are not native to Delhi. Therefore, the people of Delhi want that now the leader of Delhi becomes the Chief Minister of Delhi so that he should know the real pulse and problems of Delhi. Jat voters want his son Pravesh Verma to be made the Chief Minister once again after Sahib Singh Verma so that there can be all -round development of Delhi. The same Gurjar voter is demanding to make Ramesh Bidhuri the Chief Minister.
To say that the Congress is also contesting elections with full actively. But the Congress’s morale has weakened after his fellow parties supported the Aam Aadmi Party in the India alliance. Due to this, the election campaign of the Congress has not even gained much momentum. In such a situation, the main contest is being considered between AAP and BJP.
From the struggle that is being seen in the election of Delhi Assembly, it seems that this time there is a possibility of the match to be noble to neck. A big assault is being done by all the Dallas to woo voters. Seeing the trend of the last Lok Sabha election, it seems that no one can tell which party will form the government this time. Only the voters of Delhi will decide this by voting for this. The party in favor of Delhi will vote. The same party will form the government in Delhi.
– Ramesh Saraf Dhamora
(The author is an independent journalist recognized by the Government of Rajasthan.)
