All four Sikh faces of the Aam Aadmi Party are leading their seats in Delhi Assembly elections. Jarnail Singh Journalist is leading from Rajauri Garden. Another candidate named Jarnail Singh is leading from Tilak Nagar. Jagdeep Singh is leading from Hari Nagar and Avtar Singh Kalkaji is also leading from Kalkaji.
Beating all favorable estimates by Exit polls, the Aam Aadmi Party is heading for a total sweep in Delhi Assembly elections. According to News Nation tv channel Aam Aadmi Party candidates are leading on 59 seats, while Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) and associates are reduced to just 10 seats. Congress seems to get a total wipe-out as none of the party candidates are leading.
Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)'s Chief Minsiter candidate Kiran Bedi is trailing to Aam Aadmi Party's SK Bagga from Krishna Nagar constituency. Kirshna Nagar was considered to be secure seat of BJP but if the trends are translated in to results BJP will lost this seat.
Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party is heading for clear majority in Delhi Assembly polls, while the trends show that Bhartiya Janta Party is likely to get a big smash.
Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) candidate Manjinder Singh Sirsa is leading from Rajouri Garden, while Aam Aadmi Party's candidate Jarnail Singh is trailing on this seat.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Yogendra Yadav maintained that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is heading for two-third majority in Delhi assembly elections.
Counting of votes for recently held Delhi Assembly polls has begun and initial trends are available now. It is notable that no trend were available at the website of Election Commission of India's website and different news channels were showing different trends at the time of writing this news (8:45 am).
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded two Sikh candidates for Delhi Assembly elections. Besides this there are three Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) candidates that are contesting Delhi elections on BJP symbols. The Congress party has fielded three Sikh candidates for Delhi Assembly elections.
Punjab's ruling party Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) is contesting four seats for Delhi Assembly Elections for which votes were cast today. Three of Badal Dal's candidates are contesting on election symbol of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP).
Jarnail Singh, former journalist, had hit headlines when he hurled a shoe at the then Union home minister P Chidambram in 2009 over inaction in the 1984 Sikh genocide related cases. He had lost the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from the West Delhi seat.
As Delhi goes for polling today, there are 13 Sikh faces contesting the high pitched battle for Delhi Assembly on 11 seats. Four of these 13 Sikhs are contesting against each other. Rajouri Garden and Kalkaji are two such constituency where two Sikhs each are contesting elections against each other.
Polling for Delhi Assembly elections concluded today with 67.08% voter turnout. Exit polls conducted by various media sections are predicting clear majority for the Aam Aadmi party in Delhi.
Sikh preacher Baba Baljit Singh Daduwal has announced support for Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) candidates. Daduwal held a meeting with Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (DSGMC) president Manjit Singh GK and others.
On the last day of campaigning for the Delhi elections, the BJP has a pledge of support from the Dera Sacha Sauda, a controversial sect in neighbouring Haryana headed by the controversial Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
Aam Aadmi Party today filed a complaint with the Election Commission against BJP for allegedly targeting party leader Arvind Kejriwal's "gotra"(sub-caste) in an advertisement.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today criticized the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) for floating news/ reports of a possible move to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to re-investigate cases related to November 1984 Sikh pogrom. Aam Aadmi Party said such reports were a “poll gimmick” of the Saffron party to get political milage from the issue in wake of Delhi Assembly elections.
Punjab's Revenue Minister Bikram Majithia is campaigning for Badal Dal-BJP candidate Manjinder Singh Sirsa for Delhi Assembly Elections, but the dark shadow of his alleged patronage to drugs abuse and trade in Punjab is following him even in Delhi.
Dal Khalsa has termed the recommendations of Justice (Retd.) GP Mathur Panel to constitute SIT to re-investigate 237 cases related to Nov 1984 carnage as another ploy to mislead the Sikhs and to further prolong the already unending wait for justice.
Mathur Panel, which was constituted in December last year, had a three-month term but submitted its report within 45 days.
Sikh intellectuals, S. Gurtej Singh and Dr Gurdarshan Singh Dhillon have extended their support to Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi elections.
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