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The AAP's candidates person done good successful Muslim-dominated seats and look poised to triumph six of the 7 seats. (PTI)
Even arsenic Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) bigwigs are connected the brink of defeat, the party’s candidates person done good successful Muslim-dominated seats and look poised to triumph six of the 7 seats wherever the assemblage has a important chunk of voters.
According to latest trends, isolated from Mustafabad, the AAP candidates are comfortably up successful Chandni Chowk, Matia Mahal, Babarpur, Seelampur, Okhla, and Ballimaran. Five years ago, the enactment had won each 7 seats by large margins. However, successful the run-up to the polls, AAP leaders had admitted that the margins whitethorn spot a dip.
Despite an underlying feeling wrong the assemblage that the AAP had not stood by it, particularly during the 2020 riots and anti-CAA protests, Muslims saw the AAP arsenic the lone viable enactment that could airs a situation to the BJP.
An AAP person from the number assemblage connected Saturday said the enactment from the number assemblage is simply a “consolation” successful examination to the wide result. “While our enactment whitethorn person not been precise fashionable among the community, Muslims person decidedly stood down america successful these elections,” the person said.
While lone 16 Muslim candidates contested the 2020 elections, this clip the fig doubled with smaller parties similar the BSP and AIMIM fielding candidates from the community.
The AAP had fielded Muslim candidates successful 5 seats – Matia Mahal and Ballimaran successful Central Delhi, Okhla successful South East Delhi, and Seelampur and Mustafabad successful North East Delhi – conscionable similar it did successful 2020.
Along with Dalits and jhuggi-jhopdi (JJ) oregon slum clump residents, the Muslim community, which accounts for astir 13% of Delhi’s 1.55 crore voters, played a cardinal relation successful ensuring the AAP’s expanse successful the 2015 and 2020 Assembly polls, erstwhile the enactment had bagged 67 and 62 seats retired of 70, respectively.
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The AIMIM factor
The Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM had fielded candidates connected 2 seats with a sizeable Muslim colonisation – Okhla and Mustafabad. While Delhi riots accused and erstwhile AAP councillor Tahir Hussain was successful 3rd spot successful Mustafabad wherever the BJP was leading, the party’s 2nd campaigner Shifa ur Rehman Khan, who is besides an accused successful the 2020 riots, was successful 2nd spot successful Okhla.
Congress
While the Congress whitethorn person focused connected the assemblage during its campaign, it failed to construe into votes. The enactment was 3rd connected six of the 7 seats portion it was a distant 4th successful Okhla. Congress leaders admit that the enactment whitethorn person failed to person the assemblage that it was a unit which could situation the BJP successful the nationalist capital. “We failed to person the assemblage that we could decision the BJP. This was chiefly owed to the past 2 elections erstwhile our show was dismal,” said a Congress leader.
In the 2020 polls, the Congress had fielded lone 5 Muslim candidates – successful the aforesaid seats wherever the AAP’s Muslim faces emerged arsenic the winners. This time, the Congress had fielded 7 candidates. Barring Seelampur, wherever it secured a 15.61% ballot share, the Congress’ ballot stock was precise debased successful the 7 seats.
Asad Rehman is with the nationalist bureau of The Indian Express and covers authorities and argumentation focusing connected spiritual minorities successful India. A writer for implicit 8 years, Rehman moved to this relation aft covering Uttar Pradesh for 5 years for The Indian Express. During his clip successful Uttar Pradesh, helium covered politics, crime, health, and quality rights among different issues. He did extended crushed reports and covered the protests against the caller citizenship instrumentality during which galore were killed successful the state. During the Covid pandemic, helium did extended crushed reporting connected the migration of workers from the metropolitan cities to villages successful Uttar Pradesh. He has besides covered immoderate landmark litigations, including the Babri Masjid-Ram temple lawsuit and the ongoing Gyanvapi-Kashi Vishwanath temple dispute. Prior to that, helium worked connected The Indian Express nationalist table for 3 years wherever helium was a transcript editor. Rehman studied astatine La Martiniere, Lucknow and past went connected to bash a bachelor's grade successful History from Ramjas College, Delhi University. He besides has a Masters grade from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. ... Read More
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