New Delhi: Another election, another defeat for the Congress! The only silver lining for the party, well it couldn't get worse. The grand old party, which has been in power in Delhi since 1998, would be hoping that Delhiites have given vent to their anger at the MCD level. Good, we now have a better chance at the Assembly level, when the level of anger would have reduced. But these...
04:13 PM, Apr 17, 2012
The BJP has surged ahead in all the three municipal corporations of Delhi. ...
02:51 PM, Apr 17, 2012
BJP leader Vijender Gupta said that it's a clear referendum against the Congress, price rise and corruption. ...
01:43 PM, Apr 17, 2012
The BJP said that the stage was set for assembly elections as people want to throw out the Congress government. ...
01:41 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: In a huge blow to the Congress and the Sheila Dikshit government in the capital, the BJP has surged ahead in all the three municipal corporations of Delhi. The BJP would secure majority in East and North Delhi, and emerge as the single largest party in South Delhi as per the latest lead projections. The BJP is confident of getting the support of independents to cross the midway...
01:18 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress are locked in a bitter fight to control the three civic bodies in the national capital. The BJP is leading in all the three civic bodies - South Delhi, North Delhi and East Delhi. The BJP has established a huge lead in North Delhi and South, both of which have 104 seats each. The party is leading 55 seats with...
08:40 AM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: The MCD polls are being seen as an acid test for Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Delhi will soon know who will rule its three newly created municipal corporations. Counting of votes began on Tuesday and the exercise is being watched by the Congress and BJP with bated breath. Counting of votes for 272 wards is taking place in 33 centres across the capital amid tight security and...
08:01 AM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: The MCD polls are being seen as an acid test for Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Delhi will know who will rule its three newly created municipal corporations when counting of votes takes place on Tuesday, an exercise which will be watched by Congress and BJP with bated breath. Counting of votes for 272 wards will take place in 33 centres across the capital on Tuesday amid tight...
06:02 AM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi will know who will rule its three newly created municipal corporations when counting of votes takes place on Tuesday, an exercise which will be watched by Congress and BJP with bated breath. Counting of votes for 272 wards will take place in 33 centres across the capital on Tuesday amid tight security and all results are expected to come by three pm, a senior State Election Commission...
06:48 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi voted for the first time for the trifurcated Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections on Sunday that saw the arch-rivals the Congress and the BJP in another pitched electoral battle to control the prestigious civic body. BJP, which won the polls in 2007 with 164 seats in the 272-member body, is hoping to retain power for a third term while Congress hopes to make a dent this year....
10:41 AM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: As Delhi voted Sunday for its trifurcated municipal corporation, a 19-year-old boy reached the Delhi Election Commission to demand his right for not voting. Akshay Malhotra, 19, who is from Karampura area of west Delhi, reached Delhi Election Commission Sunday morning to complain that he was not allowed to practice his right not to vote. "I reached the local polling booth and asked them for the form 11A,...
03:49 PM, Apr 15, 2012
New Delhi: Moderate polling was witnessed in the Delhi municipal elections, the first for the trifurcated civic body, on Sunday with 55-58 per cent of the 1.15 crore electorate exercising its franchise till late afternoon. The counting of votes will take place on Tuesday. There were no reports of violence during the election for three new Corporations, seen as a semi-final ahead of next year's Assembly polls in the state....
07:30 AM, Apr 15, 2012
In this MCD election, parties are promising underground and multi-level parking lots to woo voters. ...
07:04 AM, Apr 15, 2012
New Delhi: Playing it safe, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday said the election to the trifurcated municipal corporations on Sunday will not be a "referendum" on her government as it is being fought on local issues. She, however, exuded confidence on winning the polls saying people of the city are "fed up" with "corruption and inefficiency" of the BJP-ruled MCD in the last five years and they would vote...
08:49 PM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: 2,400 candidates will vie for voters' attention in the capital on Sunday when Delhiites go out to vote for the municipal elections, an exercise tipped as a semi-final ahead of next year's Assembly polls. The polls to the 272 wards in the three civic bodies - East, North and South - carved out of the existing Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will begin at 8 am and ends...
02:42 PM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi has been feeling the effects of several minor earthquakes in the past few months. In such a situation, an important election issue is building safety and illegal construction. But as CNN-IBN found out, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) may not be doing much to address the problem. More than 70 people died and hundreds were injured when the Lalita Park building came crashing down two years...
08:36 AM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: Tearing into the BJP ahead of the civic polls, Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday alleged that there was "multi-level corruption" in the BJP-ruled MCD and accused it of not utilising funds allotted by the Centre and city governments for executing development works. Sibal, MP from Chandi Chowk in the heart of the capital, listed non-authorisation of resettlement colonies, increasing parking charges and toll tax and the poor...
05:46 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: Cricketer Virender Sehwag on Thursday added more star power to Delhi municipal polls campaigning by canvassing votes for his sister who is contesting the elections on a Congress ticket. Sehwag, the captain of Delhi Daredevils, took time off IPL and spent around two hours in the evening in Dakshinpuri Extension, the ward from which his sister Anju Meherwal is fighting the elections. Criss-crossing the ward in an open...
02:30 AM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: One more candidate contesting the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections has been allegedly stabbed. A Shiv Sena candidate, Sunil Kumar, claimed on Thursday that he was attacked by four people who stabbed him. Sunil Kumar, who is contesting from ward number 21 in the Rohini area of Delhi, said that he was going to a salon when four people attacked him. While two held him, the other two...
01:31 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: With 6.5 million vehicles in the capital and more adding up daily, Delhis traffic woes are growing and 255 parking lots are just not enough. Politicians have made it an election issue for the coming municipal corporation polls. While BJP leader Vijendra Gupta says that they will build 100 more underground parking lots, Congresss JP Aggarwal says, "We will identify more parking spaces and create multi level parking...
09:07 AM, Apr 12, 2012
