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Delhi goes to polls on Feb 7
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IBNS): Amid a different national scene, Delhi Assembly elections will be held on Feb. 7.
Announcing this here on Monday, Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath said counting of votes would be held on Feb 10.
"The date of Delhi Assembly polls is February 7. The Model Code of Conduct comes into immediate effect," he told a press conference here.
The Delhi Assembly has 70 seats and the capital has 1.3 crore voters.
The last date for filing nomination is on Jan 21 and the last date for withdrawal of papers is on Jan 24, the CEC said.
The election is necessitated as former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal resigned on Feb 14 last year after remaining in power for 49 days over the Jan Lokpal Bill. Though AAP did not have the required majority in a hung post-poll situation, it managed to form government with outside support of the Congress.
The Delhi Assembly was dissolved in November last year when neither of the three major parties- the BJP, the Congress, and AAP - could said they could form a government.
The BJP, which had won the most seats in elections held in December 2013, will not project a candidate for Chief Minister. "We will go into this election with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the face," the party's Delhi chief Satish Upadhyay told NDTV.
The BJP swept all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi in the national elections last May, promising to be a more formidable force the AAP and the Congress have to fight with.
Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party, which sprang surprise by winning 27 seats last time, is fighting polls with the same leader.
The Congress will be led by former Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken while former Chief Minister Sheila Dixit has reportedly declined to be in the fray.
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