BJP MP Praveen Khandelwal shows his inked finger after casting his vote at a polling booth during the Delhi Assembly elections, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: PTI Delhi is on high alert for the Assembly polls on Wednesday (February 5, 2025) with over 30,000 police personnel and 220 companies of paramilitary forces have been … Read more
Delhi CM Atishi with Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal. | Photo Credit: The Hindu AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday (February 5, 2025) appealed to the voters of Delhi to recognise the importance of their vote in shaping the future of the city. Delhi Assembly election 2025 LIVE updates In a message … Read more
Govt officials on Election Duty seen carrying EVM and other Election related materials to their designated pooling booths, ahead of the voting for the Delhi Assembly Elections in New Delhi on January 04, 2025. | Photo Credit: R V Moorthy Over 1.56 crore electors are set to seal the fate of the Delhi Assembly polls … Read more
People at Humayunpur Village in Safdarjung Enclave complained that authorities overlook issues like exorbitant rent and poor amenities. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA Nestled inside south Delhi’s Safdarjung Enclave, Humayunpur, a predominantly Jaat-dominated village, is now home to hundreds of migrants from Northeast India who are generally students, office-goers, or restaurateurs. Most of them, … Read more
EC officials told us they will ensure voters feel safe and cast their ballot without fear, said AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal led a delegation of party leaders to the Election Commission of India (EC) office on Tuesday and, in a meeting with … Read more
Delhi CM Atishi and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal during a roadshow. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma A day before polling for the 70-member Delhi Assembly, the Delhi police on Tuesday (February 4, 2025) registered an FIR against Chief Minister Atishi, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate from Kalkaji Assembly seat, for violating the … Read more
Workers unloads EVMs and other election materials at a polling centre at Gole Market ahead of Delhi Assembly poll, in New Delhi, on February 4, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Congress have asked their workers to be vigilant against electoral malpractice during polling … Read more
Women voters in Delhi’s Katewara village. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR As she drives her e-rickshaw through the streets of south Delhi’s Khanpur, ignoring the stares of passersby, Savitri, 49, says she would like Delhi to be a more inclusive city for women. She adds that better roads and improved law and order will … Read more
People at Humayunpur Village in Safdarjung Enclave complained that authorities overlook issues like exorbitant rent and poor amenities. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA Nestled inside south Delhi’s Safdarjung Enclave, Humayunpur, a predominantly Jaat-dominated village, is now home to hundreds of migrants from Northeast India who are generally students, office-goers, or restaurateurs. Most of them, … Read more
Watch: Power play in Delhi | Will Purvanchali voters decide the winner? In the 2025 Delhi Assembly elections, 699 candidates are contending for 70 seats—but the real power may lie with the Purvanchali voter. In North-East Delhi, home to a large Purvanchali population, the mood is uncertain, even tense. This working-class community, long seen as … Read more
Officials on Election Duty seen carrying EVM and other Election related materials to their designated polling booths, ahead of the voting for the Delhi Assembly Elections in New Delhi on January 4, 2025. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy Over 1.56 crore electors are set to seal the fate of the Delhi Assembly polls as all … Read more
A file image of Lok Sabha MP from Baramulla Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (February 4, 2025) issued notice to its registrar general on the issue of designation of a court to hear the bail plea of Jammu and Kashmir MP … Read more
File view of Nirvachan Sadan, Election Commission of India, in Delhi. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Amid allegations levelled by the Aam Aadmi Party that the Election Commission is being run by CEC Rajiv Kumar, the poll panel on Tuesday (February 4, 2025) hit back saying it is a three-member body which has collectively … Read more
“Out of 118 candidates with criminal records contesting the Delhi Assembly polls, 24 candidates (20%) did not have their records disclosed or justified by their respective parties,” poll rights body ADR said on Tuesday, February 4, 2025. A total of 699 candidates are contesting the upcoming assembly polls in Delhi. Also Read: High-octane campaign … Read more
Story so far: The race for the nation’s capital is on as the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seeks to retain Delhi for the third consecutive time in the upcoming state polls. Its prime opposition is the BJP, which is eyeing to recapture Delhi as it has not been in power in the Union … Read more
Security personnel check vehicles ahead of Delhi Legislative Assembly election on Delhi- Gurugram Expressway on February 3, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Delhi Police has recorded 1,076 cases of alleged Model Code of Conduct (MCC) violations and arrested or detained 34,250 people for it, an official said on Tuesday (February 4. 2025). These are cases … Read more
File view of Nirvachan Sadan, Election Commission of India, in Delhi. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Amid allegations levelled by the Aam Aadmi Party that the Election Commission is being run by CEC Rajiv Kumar, the poll panel on Tuesday (February 4, 2025) hit back saying it is a three-member body which has collectively … Read more
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi. File. | Photo Credit: ANI Delhi Police registered an FIR on Tuesday (February 4, 2025) against Chief Minister Atishi, the AAP candidate from Kalkaji, for allegedly violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) and obstructing public servants on duty, an official said. “We have registered an FIR against Kalkaji AAP candidate … Read more
AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi CM Atishi Singh Marlena, Former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and AAP leader Satyender Jain launching a book titled ‘The Delhi Model’ authored by Jasmine Shah (extreme right) in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR The February 5 election will be a test of how the unique model … Read more
One for the road: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra interacting with voters during her campaign on Monday. | Photo Credit: PTI On an aggressive comeback bid in the capital, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra held roadshows in Kasturba Nagar and Kalkaji constituencies on the final day of the Delhi Assembly poll campaign. … Read more
Even as pollution of the Yamuna river took centre stage in the Delhi Assembly election campaign for all three main political parties, air pollution was almost absent from the political messaging. This is despite the fact that Delhi is one of the most polluted capital cities in the world. Yamuna is linked to Chhath Puja, a festival … Read more
AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi CM Atishi Singh Marlena, Former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and AAP leader Satyender Jain launching a book titled ‘The Delhi Model’ authored by Jasmine Shah (extreme right) in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR The February 5 election will be a test of how the unique model … Read more
Samajwadi Party leader Dimple Yadav with party candidate Ajit Prasad during a roadshow for the Milkipur Assembly constituency by-elections, in Milkipur Ravi Pasi, a Samajwadi Party (SP) worker from Mau, is focused on at least six daily nukkad (street-corner) meetings in Ayodhya district’s Milkipur constituency, where a bypoll is scheduled for February 5. “This is … Read more
With days left for the elections, Delhi police on Monday said they have beefed up security, with more than 200 companies of paramilitary forces and over 30,000 police personnel being deployed across the national capital, police officers said. While addressing a press conference, Special Commissioners of Police (law and order) Madhup Tewari (zone-II) and Ravindra … Read more
On January 10th, YouTuber and journalist Meghnad S made a surprising announcement—he’s entering the political arena. Taking to his platform, he declared his candidacy for the Delhi elections from the Malviya Nagar constituency. A bold political experiment, Project Anda challenges the notion that politics is only for the wealthy or the well-connected. It’s a movement … Read more
Ghazipur vegetable market in east Delhi. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Sitting next to his stall on a packed afternoon in the Ghazipur wholesale vegetable market, Md. Suleman witnesses several potential customers bristling with anger when he quotes the prices of ginger and garlic, which are the two items he sells. “₹280 a kilo! … Read more
Union Home Minister Amit Shah at a rally in support of Tarvinder Singh Marwah, the BJP candidate taking on AAP’s Manish Sisodia in Jangpura constituency. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP On the final day of its nearly month-long campaign for the Delhi Assembly election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday took on the … Read more
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and Chief Minister Atishi at a roadshow in the Capital on Monday. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said his party is on course to win 55 of the 70 Assembly seats in Delhi. However, he said, with the help of the … Read more
Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: R V Moorthy Delhi Metro will start its operation on all lines from their terminal stations at 4 a.m. on voting and counting day in order to facilitate the staff deployed for election duty, a statement said on Monday (February 3, 2025). The trains will run … Read more