Mcd Bypoll

A total of 2,012 candidates have filed their nomination papers with poll authorities for the upcoming civic elections in Delhi, sources said on Tuesday.

As votes are counted for Delhi civic body bypolls for five wards, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party this morning won one ward - Kalyanpuri - with over 7,000 votes. The AAP has gained comfortable lead in three other wards - Rohini, Trilokpuri, and Shalimar Bagh - while the Congress is leading in Chauhan Bangar.

AAP candidates were leading in four wards as the counting for municipal bypolls began today, election officials said.

AAP candidates were leading in four wards as the counting for municipal bypolls began on Wednesday morning, election officials said.

The President has signed off on disqualifying 20 legislators of Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party as recommended by the Election Commission for running offices of profit, and now Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's only hope of avoiding fresh elections for their assembly seats is an intervention by court

A day after exit polls predicted gloom for the Congress in state elections, it drew some cheer by wresting seats from the BJP in Delhi's powerful civic body MCD.

Smarting under the setback in MCD bypolls, the ruling BJP on Tuesday sought to downplay AAP's achievement in the elections, and claimed the Arvind Kejriwal- led party's low vote share was a "proof" that people of Delhi have "rejected" its politics of "lies and arrogance".

A section of Congress leaders and workers of its Delhi unit today met party president Sonia Gandhi after the party's victory in the MCD bypolls.

Nearly 46 per cent voters exercised their franchise in the high-stake MCD bypolls for 13 wards today, being billed as a litmus test for popularity of the AAP government even as BJP and Congress put a stiff fight in Delhi.

Voting began today morning for the Delhi municipal bypolls to 13 wards in which over 6 lakh electorate are eligible to decide the fate of 95 candidates in a triangular contest being considered the litmus test ahead of the 2017 civic body elections.

The stage is set for the high-stake Delhi municipal bypolls to 13 wards tomorrow, with both ruling BJP and Congress exuding confidence of winning while AAP is seeking to replicate its Assembly elections performance in its maiden outing at the civic hustings.

With bypolls in 13 MCD wards scheduled next month, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal is unlikely to campaign for the party in the elections.

BJP today announced the names of its candidates, including three former legislators, for the municipal corporation by-polls scheduled to be held next month in 13 wards of Delhi.

A total of 2,012 candidates have filed their nomination papers with poll authorities for the upcoming civic elections in Delhi, sources said on Tuesday.

As votes are counted for Delhi civic body bypolls for five wards, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party this morning won one ward - Kalyanpuri - with over 7,000 votes. The AAP has gained comfortable lead in three other wards - Rohini, Trilokpuri, and Shalimar Bagh - while the Congress is leading in Chauhan Bangar.

AAP candidates were leading in four wards as the counting for municipal bypolls began today, election officials said.

AAP candidates were leading in four wards as the counting for municipal bypolls began on Wednesday morning, election officials said.

The President has signed off on disqualifying 20 legislators of Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party as recommended by the Election Commission for running offices of profit, and now Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's only hope of avoiding fresh elections for their assembly seats is an intervention by court

A day after exit polls predicted gloom for the Congress in state elections, it drew some cheer by wresting seats from the BJP in Delhi's powerful civic body MCD.

Smarting under the setback in MCD bypolls, the ruling BJP on Tuesday sought to downplay AAP's achievement in the elections, and claimed the Arvind Kejriwal- led party's low vote share was a "proof" that people of Delhi have "rejected" its politics of "lies and arrogance".

A section of Congress leaders and workers of its Delhi unit today met party president Sonia Gandhi after the party's victory in the MCD bypolls.

Nearly 46 per cent voters exercised their franchise in the high-stake MCD bypolls for 13 wards today, being billed as a litmus test for popularity of the AAP government even as BJP and Congress put a stiff fight in Delhi.

Voting began today morning for the Delhi municipal bypolls to 13 wards in which over 6 lakh electorate are eligible to decide the fate of 95 candidates in a triangular contest being considered the litmus test ahead of the 2017 civic body elections.

The stage is set for the high-stake Delhi municipal bypolls to 13 wards tomorrow, with both ruling BJP and Congress exuding confidence of winning while AAP is seeking to replicate its Assembly elections performance in its maiden outing at the civic hustings.

With bypolls in 13 MCD wards scheduled next month, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal is unlikely to campaign for the party in the elections.

BJP today announced the names of its candidates, including three former legislators, for the municipal corporation by-polls scheduled to be held next month in 13 wards of Delhi.