Kiran Bedi Missing From Posters as BJP's Big Guns Campaign for Delhi Polls

The BJP's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi is missing from posters and some election speeches as the party changes the pitch of its campaign in Delhi dramatically. With seven days to go for polling, party president and chief strategist Amit Shah has deployed the BJP's biggest guns to take on Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmi Party.

Many BJP posters in Delhi constituencies now feature only Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr Shah and the local party candidate.

While Ms Bedi - who joined the party just days ago and was immediately announced presumptive CM - continued to criss-cross Delhi with her roadshows, the party's focused attack on her main rival Arvind Kejriwal is being fronted by senior party leaders.

Two central ministers posed a second installment of five questions to Mr Kejriwal.

Tomorrow, PM Modi will address a rally at CBD Ground in East Delhi. Today, Mr Shah spoke at a rally in Janakpuri and made not a mention of Kiran Bedi. Union minister Smriti Irani addressed another rally and she too did not mention Ms Bedi.

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Election Commission to ensure easy registration, correction of electoral rolls: HS Brahma

He said in the Commission's pursuit of "not just greater participation but complete participation," the poll body will strive to guarantee registration of all eligible persons and facilitate voting by all who are enrolled.

In a message ahead of the fifth Voters' Day on January 25, Brahma said the theme for this year is 'Easy Registration, Easy Correction.'

"I, on behalf of the Election Commission of India, urge every citizen of this country on this day to rise to this shared responsibility...(I) appeal everyone to make it a great success by becoming an integral part of the democratic electoral process," the CEC said.

He said through consistent efforts, EC has achieved an electoral roll of around 84 crore voters following the recently concluded Roll Revision. Addressing an event on January 20, Brahma had put the total number of voters at approximately 83 crore.

He also thanked people for coming out in great numbers and making the Lok Sabha Elections 2014 "the biggest ever participatory exercise in the world with more than 55 crore of you turning up at the polling station to exercise your valuable franchise."

He said the women deserve a special mention, with a record breaking participation of more than 26 crore in the LS polls.

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Delhi Assembly Elections: Polling to be held on February 7, counting on February 10

Addressing a press conference in national capital here, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) V S Sampath said the notifications for the polls will be announced on January 14 while January 21 will be the last date for filing the notifications for the assembly elections.

The CEC said the scrutiny of the papers will be held on January 22 and the last date for withdrawing the nominations will be January 24.

Sampath said as per the latest list, there is 1.30 crore voters in Delhi.

He said altogether 11,763 polling stations will be made for the elections for 70 assembly constituencies
in the national capital.

In last assembly election held in 2013, the BJP had won 31 seats while AAP bagged 28 seats in its debut elections. Congress managed to win only eight seats while others bagged three seats.

Delhiites can now check their names in the voters' list and also know the polling officer of their area through their smartphone with the election office here launching an android app - 'Delhi Election'.

"People can find out their names in electoral roll by downloading 'Delhi Election' aap in their smartphones. Besides, they can also check application status and their constituency through this android app launched recently," said a senior official.

 

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