Election Commission of India: Date for the polls in Delhi has been set for February 5, during which voters will head to the polls in order to choose their representatives to the Delhi Assembly. The dates were set this past Tuesday by the ECI and the vote counting will take place on February 8. There will be a single-phase voting process.

According to the announcement along the lines, the Chief Electoral Officer did release the final electoral roll of Delhi on a Monday, which will be a baseline for national capital’s total vote count of over 1 million. Since the estimation of citizens of the naion issued on October 29 2024 the population has witnessed a growth of 1.09%, putting the population number at 1,55,24,858. 70 different constituencies exist in Delhi, out of which 58 are General sets and 12 belong to the SC.

Event: Voting Poll   
Date: 05 February 2025  
Final Date for Submission of Nomination & Fee: 17 January 2025  
Notification Date: 10 January 2035  
Scrutiny of Nominations: 18 January 2025  
Withdrawal of Nomination: 20 January 2025  
Counting of Votes: 08 February 2025  

As the CEC of Election Commission addresses the questions arising out of the use of EVMs, he explains that, “Electoral rolls, specific to EVM voters, are a result of building transparency and building participation and political parties are involved at every level of compiling the list of voters, there is always an opportunity to contest any discrepancies and in the case of addition or removals, it is done according to the required procedures.”

Furthermore, he refutes the doubts cast over the EVM as well as the election process by the congress party and other political forces saying, “Yes, there were concerns regarding the process. Such as wrongful inclusion in the voter list and excluding the influential names from the group but as far as EVM for elections, the problems were solved.”

The GEC indicated, “Nevertheless, since the Bihar state elections, a total of 15 other parties emerged as the largest in single largest regions across the 30 states/UTs during the elections’’.

Kumar went further to stress the credibility of the a >Indian election process, noting “There has not even been one difference in 4.5 crore VVPAT slips counted so far in various elections”.

Aam Aadmi Party

The Nation’s capital is yet again a host to a three party battle, with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) looking to secure their second consecutive Good old terms, while the other two BJP and Congress are looking to dethrone the Mr. Arvind Kejriwal led party along with each other. In the 2020 Delhi elections the AAP came out on top conquering 62 of the 70 Assembly seats while the remainder were left for the BJP.

Looking forward to the elections, all 3 parties are now contesting alongside one another which leaves them the confidence of being able to seize control over all of Delhi.

New Delhi Assembly constituency candidate Sandeep Dikshit commented “Congress is ready for elections. We are taking our vision for Delhi forward. There are issues which are there, but we will continue questioning the current Delhi government.” 

According to Arvinder Singh Lovely, BJP candidate from Gandhi Nagar Assembly seat, “The people of Delhi are in a good position after PM Narendra Modi’s speech in rohini and they are ready to remove the corrupt fake aap… the people of Delhi are tired of hearing his accusations of Ah […] the not been able to do anything…”

Gopal Rai, an Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi minister, remarked “Elections have been completed. Our representatives are on the ground. People in Delhi are ready to vote for a government that works, and they are ready to vote for Arvind Kejriwal… BJP has no face of CM, they do not have an agenda, they do not have leaders, they have already lost.”