Page 3 - Delhi Assembly Elections

'We have to struggle a lot', says Priyanka after Congress' Delhi drubbing

The Congress general secretary was on her way to Delhi after meeting anti-CAA protestors in Varanasi

Congress spirals into internal blame-game post Delhi election results

Congress leaders said it was intriguing that neither Sharmistha Mukherjee nor Chacko referred to the internal sabotage that the Dikshit government in Delhi had faced

Letter to BS: AAP taking on the might of the BJP is no mean achievement

The BJP has reason to worry with Assembly elections round the corner in a few states

With hope for revival, Congress asks Shakti Gohil to take charge of Delhi

Chacko and Chopra resigned from their post in the wake of the party's debacle in the Delhi assembly elections

Delhi elections: AAP's victory margins show that it wasn't a close contest

BJP leadership had exuded confidence after exit polls had come out; EC data shows that there was no reason to

Newly elected AAP MLAs choose Kejriwal as leader of legislature party

Kejriwal met the MLAs at his official residence at Civil Lines during which he was elected the leader of the legislature party

Has Congress outsourced task of defeating BJP, Sharmishtha asks Chidambaram

Sharmishtha is daughter of former President Pranab Mukherjee, who has been a Congress leader all his life

Firing on AAP MLA Naresh Yadav's convoy: Police detain man for questioning

The firing incident happened in Kishangarh village late Tuesday night

AAP's focus on governance trumped BJP's polarisation: Shiv Sena

The Shiv Sena praised Delhi Chief Minister and AAP president Arvind Kejriwal, saying he single-handedly took on the 'army of BJP leaders'

Delhi election results: AAP's protective shield and BJP's three messages

At the outset, the BJP ate into the vote base of the Congress, and not the AAP, which maintained its vote share at close to 54 per cent

Delhi Polls: Defeat for 4 ex-mayors, other municipal leaders fielded by BJP

The results for the elections to the 70-member Delhi Assembly were announced on Tuesday, with the AAP nearly replicating its stunning performance of 2015, winning 62 seats

AAP's Amanatullah Khan wins Okhla seat with a margin of 71,000 votes

Khan amassed 130,367 votes decimating his BJP rival to 58,540 votes, while Congress's Parvez Hashmi could manage just 5,123

Delhi elections 2020: NOTA constitutes 0.5% of total votes polled

In the 2015 Delhi elections, the NOTA vote percentage had stood at 0.4% of the total votes cast

AAP's hat-trick

Assembly polls are about local issues, not nationalist narrative

AAP MLAs to meet at Kejriwal's residence to pick legislature party leader

In the meeting scheduled at 11.30 am on Wednesday, the AAP's Leader of Legislature Party will be chosen by the MLAs

Shots fired at AAP MLA's convoy, party worker dead; investigation underway

The newly-elected MLA along with his supporters was returning home after paying obeisance at a temple in his constituency, the police said

Economy showing signs of revival, green shoots visible: FM Sitharaman

She said FDI stood at $24.4 billion at the end of November 2019, as against $21.1 billion the year before

AAP sweeps Delhi: BJP crawls to single-digit; Congress draws a blank

The BJP, despite its successes in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls, has struggled at the Assembly level

Best of BS Opinion: AAP's hat-trick, Q3 profits of India Inc, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Beyond landslide victory: AAP has a tightrope walk on fiscal balance

Arvind Kejriwal government has to keep in mind that revenue and fiscal balances of the government do not deteriorate much if it expands its freebies