High-pitched campaign in Delhi ends, vote tomorrow
■ AAP banks on 5-yr record ■ BJP hopes for 45 seats, Cong vows ‘surprise’
The high-voltage campaigning for the February 8 Delhi Assembly elections ended at 6 pm on Thursday with an aggressive blitzkrieg between the Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP, and the Congress leaving no stone unturned to make it a triangular contest. While the entire AAP leadership hit the ground, centring the campaign around the five years of work done by the Arvind Kejriwal government, the controversial slogan of “shooting dead traitors” were chanted again by BJP supporters at Union home minister Amit Shah’s roadshow in Hari Nagar. Targeting both the BJP and the AAP for not fulfilling their electoral promises, the Congress claimed that it would again spring a surprise like it did in the Assembly elections in neighbouring Haryana last year.
Soon after the campaigning came to an end, the
AAP formed 272 teams in all the municipal wards of the city to keep a tight vigil after it received inputs that money and liquor were allegedly being distributed in some areas. AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said the party had filed a complaint with the Election
Commission after some reports of many BJP MPs staying at different Assembly constituencies started doing the rounds.
With the slogan, “Achhe beetay 5 saal, lage raho Kejriwal”, which also formed the peg of the AAP campaign song, party candidates tried to impress upon voters that considering the work of their government in the fields of utilities, health and education, there was no better option other than to elect Arvind Kejriwal again as chief minister of Delhi. Mr Kejriwal also reiterated that the development ■