Interesting triangular contest in East Delhi with BJP having an edge due to division of anti BJP votes

The contest between the eminent cricketer n BJP candidate Gautam Gambhir, AAP’s Aatishi and Congress’s former Delhi minister n MLA Arvinder Singh Lovely has become quite interesting with all the three contenders trying to do their best to impress the voters in the trans Yamuna constituency earlier held by BJP’s Mahesh Giri, the desciple of Sri Sri Ravishankar, the spiritual chief of the Art of Living NGO.

The AAP’s candidate Aatishi had been working in trans Yamuna localities since long as her candidature was declared about three months ago before the declaration of election dates.

However, she had been working in this area since a year. Aatishi is popular because of her highly contributive role in enhancing the educational standards of all the government n Sarvodaya schools of Delhi n bringing them at par with the public schools as far as the enhancement in the quality educational standard is concerned.

AAP has been capitalising on the issues of electricity, water and education including improvisation in health sector in Delhi, especially in the unauthorised colonies.

On the development front however AAP could not score much points as no additional flyovers or structural development have not been noticed after the party came to power.

AAP’s candidate Aatishi is emphasising on opening of maximum educational institutions in Trans Yamuna constituency and wants that the education percolates in every section of the society.

The former minister and DPCC chief Arvinder Singh Lovely who’s contesting on Congress ticket is talking about the massive development carried out in trans Yamuna constituency especially in the context of construction of flyovers, wide roads, metro connectivity and granting civic avenues compounded with criticizing the Modi government for its major failure on the employment front.

Arvinder Singh Lovely’s late entry in the fray due to the delay in AAP Congress patch up has proved negative for the Congress chances to some extent though the former is quite popular in trans Yamuna areas and is considered to be a development oriented leader. However he did has the advantage of gaining Sikh votes enblock.

There are about 18% votes of the minorities in the East Delhi constituency which was earlier considered to be the consolidated vote bank of Congress n AAP.

But after the failure of talks for patch up between both the anti BJP parties viz AAP n Congress, despite best efforts frpm both sides, there is every possible chances of this vote massive vote bank likely to divide thus giving a direct benefit to the BJP which has no chance to acknowledge the minority vote.

In addition to this, there is every possibility of the division of unauthorised colony n slum cluster vote bank which is in sizeable number in trans yamuna constituency thus helping the BJP’s politically novice cricketer turned saffron party candidate Gautam Gambhir.

BJP’s Gautam Gambhir too has been the last entrat in the election fray from the East Delhi seat, inliue of the sitting MP Mahesh Giri whose track record as a performer had been extremely bad n could have led yo losing this seat, had he been repeated this time ss well.

Young and enthusiastic cricketer who’d played a vital role in Indian cricket team bagging the world cup twice is trying to reach out to all the assembly segments of his parliamentary constituency pledging electorates of making transyamuna as one of the best constituencies in terms of its over all development. Gambhir and BJP is banking on worth of Rs. 50000 crore central projects recently approved for the infrastructural development of several transyamuna assembly segments and on Modi wave.

BJP candidates in Delhi are immensely hopeful of getting elected on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s undercurrent which according to its workers is due to post Pulwama affect as well as Modi’s personal charisma n his tremendous marketing skills. However, in yransyamuna constituency problems of congestion, traffic snarls, pollution and lack of civic amneties etc are the biggest problems which no party has resolved so far.

It may be recalled that East Delhi constituency had been represented in the past by stalwarts like H. K. L Bhagat of Congress for several terms, B. L. Sharma Prem n Lal Bihari Tiwari of BJP, Sandeep Deekshit of Congress n Mahesh Giri of BJP.

There are 20 lakh 39 thousand voters in East Delhi constituency with muslims consisting of 16 to 18% votes, resettlement colonies n slum clusters comprising on 50% votes while planned areas possess 30% votes comprising of Punjabies, Poorvanchalies, Uttarakhandies, traders n votes of other communities as well. During the last election of 2014, BJP’s Mahesh Giri defeated Raj Mohan Gandhi of AAP by 1.9 lakh votes wile in 2009 CM Shiela Dikshit’s son Sandeep Dikshit defeated BJP’s Chetan Chouhan by 2.41 lakh votes.