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BJP holds 70 rallies in Delhi on last day of campaign
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IBNS) With the electioneering reaching its last day ahead of the Feb 7 polls in Delhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is going all out to woo the voters amid survey reports that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) could come first in the elections.
Reports said the BJP will hold 70 rallies across all the 70 assembly constituencies going to polls.
According to media reports, BJP chief Amit Shah has urged party workers to ignore the surveys and opinion polls.
BJP has fielded former top cop Kiran Bedi as their chief ministerial candidate for Delhi.
Bedi said she is receiving amazing love and would increase the scale of her work and sleep two hours less for the poor and slum dwellers of Delhi.
While Modi's charisma has been instrumental in winning polls in various state, in Delhi Arvind Kejriwal still is seen a popular leader for the post of CM.
Earlier, Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday claimed that it would record a thumping victory to get 51 seats and form a new government.
The party, which conducted a survey said AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, the most popular choice for the electorate, would be the next chief minister.
AAP leader Yogendra Yadav said an internal survey of the party suggests it is likely to win 51 of Delhi's 70 seats. That assessment gives the BJP 15 seats and the Congress and others four.
However, addressing his last election rally, Prime Minister Narenda Modi rubbished such surveys.
"In the last election, they declared they would win 50 seats even when results were not out...when I was contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi, surveys predicted I would lose badly, but I won," he said.
In the last Delhi Assembly elections no party managed to get 36 seats-the magic figure for absolute majority leading to a hung house. The BJP had the maximum, 31 seats followed by the AAP 28.
The AAP survey shows that 86 per cent voters have made up their minds which party they will vote for.
In the last Delhi Assembly elections no party managed to get 36 seats-the magic figure for absolute majority leading to a hung house. The BJP had the maximum, 31 seats followed by the AAP 28.
The AAP survey shows that 86 per cent voters have made up their minds which party they will vote for.
"We asked people whom they want as CM. 53 per cent said Kejriwal, 34 per cent said Kiran Bedi of the BJP and only 7 per cent wanted the Congress' Ajay Maken," Yadav, who himself is a psephologist, said.
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