"Both AAP and Congress will sweep the elections": Congress' Deepak Babaria
May 25, 2024
New Delhi [India], May 25 : As the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls gets underway, All India Congress Committee in-charge of Delhi and Haryana Deepak Babaria said on Saturday that both AAP and Congress will win all seven seats in Delhi.
"Today there is tremendous anger among the people against the Bharatiya Janata Party and Narendra Modi. Both Aam Aadmi Party and Congress will sweep the elections. We will win all seven seats in Delhi," he said.
He further alleged that in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, there was a lot of manipulation in the results.
"They tried to take advantage of the Pulwama attack. The efforts of Congress and INDIA bloc for the last 1.5 years have reached the ground level and today people are saying 'Modi Hatao Desh Bachao'," Babaria added.
Meanwhile, voting for the sixth phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections began on Saturday morning across 58 parliamentary constituencies spread over six states and two Union Territories (UTs) amid tight security and arrangements.
The voting started at 7 am and will continue until 6 pm, with those in line by the closing time still allowed to vote.
The sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls includes eight seats in Bihar, all 10 seats in Haryana, one seat in Jammu and Kashmir, four in Jharkhand, all seven seats in Delhi, six in Odisha, 14 in Uttar Pradesh, and eight in West Bengal. A total of 889 candidates are in the fray.
All parliamentary seats in Delhi and Haryana will go to the polls in this phase. The prominent candidates in the fray include two former Chief Ministers - Manohar Lal Khattar and Mehbooba Mufti.
The riveting contest in Delhi has AAP and Congress jointly taking on the BJP, which won all seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital in the last two elections. While Congress is contesting on three seats in the national capital, AAP is contesting on four. The two parties are part of the INDIA bloc.
Some of the key seats in this phase include New Delhi, North-East Delhi, North-West Delhi and Chandni Chowk in the national capital and Sultanpur and Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh. Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag-Rajouri, West Bengal's Tamluk, Medinipur, Haryana's Karnal, Kurukshetra, Gurgaon, Rohtak and Odisha's Bhubaneswar, Puri and Sambalpur are some of the other key seats. Stakes are high for the BJP as well as for the Congress, Aam Aadmi Party and other constituents of the INDIA bloc in this phase of the election.
