Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the two-day national office-bearer's meeting of the BJP to discuss and review preparations for assembly elections to be held next year.
In what could be termed a lukewarm response to a high-pitched campaign by the AAP and the BJP for the Delhi civic polls, the overall voter turnout on Sunday was only about 30 per cent, a marginal improvement from an even poorer turnout of 18 per cent till 12 noon and just 9 per cent till
Former Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Sunday cast his vote for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections at a polling booth in Krishna Nagar and said hoped that people vote accordingly stating that the BJP has taken the country to new heights.
"A few years ago, when the BJP formed the government here by conducting Operation Lotus, PM Modi destroyed democracy. PM Modi is Bhasmasur as he swallowed his mentor LK Advani for the post," said Congress leader Ugrappa.
"The entire Opposition today seems to be in a competition on who is a better 'Hindu' than (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi. Whether it is the Delhi CM or a Congress leader (Rahul Gandhi), who is marching across the country, or the SP or the RJD. They are trying to fight hate to hate, which is
The BJP, which has governed the civic body in Delhi since 2007, is looking to maintain its winning streak while the Aam Aadmi Party, which has a majority in the Assembly, is looking to make inroads in the first municipal election in the capital after the delimitation of wards.
The elections to the 250-ward Municipal Corporation of Delhi are seeing high-pitched contests between the BJP, which currently holds the reins of the civic bodies in the national capital, and the AAP, besides the Congress.
The civic polls are seeing a contest between the BJP, which currently holds the reins of the civic bodies in the national capital, the AAP and the Congress.