Saturday, March 25th, 2017
MCD election: BSP’s entry turns Delhi civic poll into a six-cornered contest
The Delhi municipal election on April 23 is heading for an unusual six-cornered contest after Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party decided to enter the fray, despite its heavy defeat in the recent Uttar Pradesh assembly election. Who is contesting The BSP has already named 70 candidates and plans to contest all 272 wards of the city, taking on the BJP, the Aam Aadmi Party, the Congress and Yogendra Yadav’s Swaraj India. Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) is set to field candidates in at least 150 seats. How the last civic polls looked InRead More