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Delhi: BJP leads in 6 Lok Sabha seats, AAP one and Congress zero
December 10, 2013
The seat difference between the BJP and the AAP is just four in the recently held Delhi Assembly elections. The BJP has won 32 and the AAP 28 while the Congress has been reduced to singe digits with juts eight in its bag.
But the BJP is miles ahead of the AAP in terms of Lok Sabha seats.
If we add the votes polled for the BJP, the AAP and the Congress in each Lok Sabha seat, the BJP is leading in 6 of the total 7 Lok Sabha seats in Delhi.
The AAP is leading in just one Lok Sabha seat. The Congress which swept the last Lok Sabha polls by winning all 7 seats is not leading in even a single seat.
Each Lok Sabha seat in Delhi has 10 Assembly seats.
Many BJP candidates have won by a big margin when compared to the AAP, whose candidates except a few have won by a very small margin.
In the prestigious East Delhi Lok Sabha seat currently held by the outgoing chief minister Sheila Dikshit's son Sandeep Dikshit, the BJP is ahead of both the AAP and Congress. The BJP has got 3,62,013 votes, the AAP has got 3,15,262 votes and the Congress has got 3,28,050 votes.
Even though the AAP has won 5 out of 10 seats in East Delhi, it's total vote share is lesser than the votes the BJP and the Congress got.
The reason being AAP's winning margin is lesser than the margin of BJP and Congress. The BJP won three and the Congress two seats respectively.
The AAP is leading only in New Delhi Lok Sabha seat currently held by senior Congress leader Ajay Maken. The AAP has got 3,42,260 votes. The BJP come second with 3,00,181 votes while the Congress is third with just 2,15,097 votes. The AAP has won a record 7 seats in this Lok Sabha constituency. The remaining 3 seats have gone to the BJP.
The BJP is leading in North-West Delhi seat currently held by Union minister Krishna Tirath.
The BJP is also leading in North-East Delhi, South Delhi, West Delhi and Chandni Chowk.
Chandni Chowk is currently held by high profile Union minister Kapil Sibal. Here the BJP polled 2,93,080 votes and the Congress 2,69,397 votes.
The Congress heavy weights of Delhi, who are now holding important positions at the Centre have a reason to worry in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
The AAP, which is close behind, can hope to win by fielding strong candidates in all 7 Lok Sabha seats.
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BJP picks its playing XI: How saffron party is targeting 11 states as it aims to take 293 Lok Sabha seats
9 December 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party has sharpened its final countdown to the general elections of next year. The party's CEO and President – Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh - have revised the target upward to beyond the magic figure of 272, deciding to focus on 11 states in the north and central zone of the country so as to form the next government.
In the four states where results were declared on Sunday, the BJP got 408 of the 590 seats. The party leadership now wants to ride carry this momentum forward into the general elections.
"Our aim is to first cross the 272 mark and hold public rallies to take across the voters our message for good governance, anti-corruption agenda and enrolling new voters,'' party president Rajnath Singh told Mail Today.
It is learnt that the party's prime ministerial candidate and poster boy Narendra Modi now wants the BJP not only to target the nearly 72 parliamentary seats in these four states, but to extend the momentum over the nation's entire northern and central zones.
Top party sources confirmed the 11 states where the BJP will be entering an aggressive poll mode beginning early January next year are Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Rajasthan Haryana, Punjab, Himachal, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
These 11 states together have 293 LS seats, and the BJP hopes that the pace picked up in the Assembly polls will get it very close to the half-way mark of 272 in Parliament.
Leading from the front is Modi himself, who has set a virtual "mission impossible" for himself – to sweep Gujarat and get 26 out of 26 LS seats for the BJP, a top party insider told Mail Today on Wednesday.
In a similar vein, the Madhya Pradesh Assembly results have encouraged the state party leadership to fix a similar target - 29 out 29 - there as well.
BJP general secretary Ananth Kumar sees the momentum in the BJP as similar to the wave of the 1977 elections.
"A north India poll phenomenon is ready to strike in the Lok Sabha polls next year where we are aiming to repeat what we did then, that is make the Congress under Indira Gandhi sweat in the Hindi heartland of north and central India," he told Mail Today.
"If the latest Assembly results are any indicator, then we are going all out in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and the entire northern region up to Jammu," Kumar said.
The party top brass has decided to go full swing with its three-fold strategy, hints party chief Rajnath Singh.
Big aims
The party is aiming high in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, particularly in the former where Rajnath's own leadership is facing a test to get the state back in the BJP's kitty.
"We are aiming to score over 50 per cent in UP and Bihar, which makes at least 60-70 seats out of 120," said Kumar.
Top party sources said Modi and Singh have already made Bihar a priority, especially after the split with Nitish Kumar.
In Maharashtra, the saffron party is ready to have a soft alliance with either the Raj Thackeray-led MNS or the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena.
"We can then sweep Maharashtra and with SAD in Punjab, we will try to make the most in northern areas," Kumar added.
Party sources added that the leadership is not leaving out the North-East, especially Assam and Arunachal, in its new poll agenda of a "Strong BJP and Extended NDA" to neutralise the Trinamool Congress effect in Bengal.
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Congress MPs Face Bleak Future in MP
Abhinandan Mishra
Dec 11, 2013
[The BJP wave in Madhya Pradesh has literally put a question mark on the fate of 11 Congress MPs in the state, who failed to make any impact in the Assembly seats in their constituencies.]
The BJP wave in Madhya Pradesh has literally put a question mark on the fate of 11 Congress MPs in the state, who failed to make any impact in the Assembly seats in their constituencies.
A reading of the poll result shows that of 87 such Assembly seats, the Congress could win only 20 of them.
The worst performer was Pradesh Congress Committee chief Kantilal Bhuria, the MP from Ratlam. In the seven Assembly seats there, the party drew a blank. The BJP won in six seats while the remaining one went to an independent.
Similarly, in the Mandsaur parliamentary seat, represented by Rahul Gandhi’s trusted aide Meenakshi Natrajan, the party could win only one of the eight seats.
The rest seven went to the BJP. MP from Ujjain Premchand Guddu, who was also the party’s media incharge during the campaigning, too, fared poorly in his constituency. The Congress lost all the eight Assembly seats in Ujjain. In the 2008 polls, the party had three MLAs from this region.
According to party sources, these leaders would now find it difficult to secure tickets for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
“They are MPs and hence responsible for the party’s performance in their constituencies. We were expecting close to 50 seats from these 11 MPs. However, they failed to win even half of it. The Assembly election results show that they have become unpopular and it is likely that many of them will not be repeated in 2014,” a party leader said.
Another senior leader Sajjan Verma, who represents the Dewas seat, too could not stop the BJP wave and all the eight seats in his constituency went to the saffron party.
Khandwa MP Arun Yadav also failed to deliver. In his region, the Congress could win only one of the eight Assembly seats. In Chhindwara, represented by Union Minister Kamal Nath, the party won three of the seven seats.
In the Guna constituency, from where Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia comes, the Congress did relatively well by winning five of the eight seats.
The party also did well in Mandla where it won four of the eight seats. Mandla is represented by Basori Singh Masram.However in Dhar, the Congress could secure only two of the eight seats. The constituency is represented by Gajendra Singh Rajukhedi. Similar was the party’s fate in Rajgarh. MP
Narayan Singh could manage only two of the eight seats. The story was repeated in MP Nandini Singh’s Shahdol constituency.