Delhi Election 2025 highlights: With voting for the Delhi assembly elections to commence tomorrow, February 5, the mandatory silence period has begun after campaigning for all parties ended yesterday. Delhi is set to witness a triangular competition between the Aam Admi Party, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Election Commission’s Model Code of Conduct (MCC) mandates that all public meetings, election-related functions, and campaigning must cease 48 hours before the close of polling.
1.56 crore voters are eligible to cast their ballots across 13,766 polling stations on February 5. Among them, 83.76 lakh are men, 72.36 lakh women, while 1,267 are third-gender voters, according to the EC.
220 companies of paramilitary forces, 19,000 home guards, and 35,626 Delhi police personnel will also be deployed to ensure safety and fair voting practices during the elections.
Votes are scheduled to be counted on February 8.
Delhi election 2025 | Key updates
An intense battle of words has broken out ahead of the Delhi elections, with Union home minister Amit Shah accusing former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal of being involved in a “flood of scams”.
Meanwhile, Arvind Kejriwal took a dig at the BJP government over the Union Budget 2025 saying that as soon as people gave them fewer seats, they promptly changed the income tax regime and would halve GST rates once they were defeated in Delhi as well.
Congress’ candidate from the New Delhi assembly constituency Sandeep Dikshit also criticised Arvind Kejriwal, his rival for the seat, on the latter’s prediction that AAP would win 55 out of 80 seats, saying, “A year ago, PM Modi also said 400 seats, some say 450, but it is good that Arvind Kejriwal did not claim 80 seats—he would have won more than what he had.”
Delhi Election 2025: Police say further probe is underway after alleged cash seizure
Delhi Election 2025 : “We received a call that some people were caught with ₹5 lakhs, our team reached there and FST (Flying Squad Team) handed over two men, namely Gaurav and Ajit…both are attached to (Delhi) CM office, as per the preliminary information. We have seized ₹5 lakhs from them. Further investigation is underway…we are investigating the source of the money, where it was brought from, and where they were taking it…as per what we have got to know till now, one of the men was working as an assistant of CM’s PA and the other one is a driver,” said Ravi Kumar Singh, DCP South East.
Delhi Election 2025 : MoS Harsh Malhotra accuses AAP of ‘hooliganism’
Delhi Election 2025 : MoS Harsh Malhotra accused the AAP of spreading a “fake narrative” and creating an “atmosphere of fear” by resorting to “hooliganism”.
“Yesterday, there were 8-10 vehicles with Atishi, and when she was inquired about it, they were found to be from Punjab, and they got into a scuffle with the Police; FIR has also been registered. In Laxmi Nagar, a complaint has been registered against Pravesh Garg and Meenakshi Sharma, two AAP ‘goons’. They threatened and assaulted a woman worker of BJP…when we got here, we got to know that, in Govindpuri, ₹5 lakhs were recovered from Atishi’s aides. They don’t want Delhi elections to be fair. They want to create riots, so we are here to complain to the Election Commission of India,” he said.
Delhi Election 2025 : BJP claims Atishi Marlena’s assistant caught with ₹5 lakh cash
The BJP’s Delhi unit has claimed that CM Atishi’s PA was caught with ₹5 lakh cash.
The saffron party’s capital unit X account said, “Marlena ji is openly distributing money, and has invited people from other states to her assembly…and yesterday to create drama she was accusing that why there are people from outside in Kalka assembly…then who is this?? The fear of defeat is clearly visible to you people.”
