Mehrauli assembly Seat: Who will the people of Mehrauli choose this time, such is the electoral history here
Mehrauli Seat: AAP has cut the ticket of the current mla and fielded Mahendra Chaudhary from Mehrauli. bjp has given ticket to Gajendra Yadav and congress has given ticket to pushpa Singh.
Mehrauli assembly seat of delhi is part of West delhi Lok Sabha. In 2020, AAP's naresh Yadav won from here. This time there are a total of 140736 voters on this seat. Of these, 76857 are men and 63874 are women, the rest are five other voters.
The story of how delhi got an assembly started from 1952. 1952 delhi was given an assembly as a Part-C state. In 1956 that assembly was dissolved. In 1966, Delhi was given a metropolitan council.
The delhi State Assembly came into existence on 17 march 1952 under the Part-C State government Act, 1951. The 1952 assembly had 48 members. There was provision for a Council of Ministers to aid and advise the Chief Commissioner in the discharge of his functions, with the power to legislate in respect of which the State assembly was empowered to make laws.
Following the recommendations of the States Reorganisation Commission (1955), delhi ceased to be a Part-C state on 1 november 1956. The delhi assembly and Council of Ministers were abolished and Delhi became a Union Territory under the direct administration of the President. There was a demand for a democratic system and responsible administration in Delhi. Thereafter, the Metropolitan Council was created under the delhi Administration Act, 1966. It was a unicameral democratic body consisting of 56 elected members and 5 members nominated by the President.
Even after this, the demand for an assembly continued to be raised. On 24 december 1987, the government of india appointed the Sarkaria Committee (later called the Balakrishnan Committee). The committee submitted its report on 14 december 1989 and recommended that Delhi should remain a Union Territory but should be given an assembly with good powers to deal with matters related to the common man. As per the recommendation of the Balakrishnan Committee, parliament passed the Constitution (69th Amendment) Act, 1991, which inserted new Articles 239AA and 239AB in the Constitution, which among other things, provided for an assembly for Delhi. The Assembly was not empowered to legislate on issues of public order, police, and land. After delimitation in 1992, Delhi got an elected Assembly and Chief Minister after the Assembly elections in 1993.
In the 1977 elections held here, Kalka Das of the Janata party defeated Puran Chand of the congress by 10169 votes. In the 1983 elections held here again, Kalka Das won again. This time Kalka Das won on a bjp ticket. The bjp candidate defeated Rajendra Kumar Bodh of congress by 6480 votes.
1993: BJP's Jagdish Mukhi wins
After delhi became a union territory with an assembly, assembly elections were held in delhi for the first time in 1993. On this seat, Brahma Singh Tanwar of bjp defeated Balram Singh Tanwar of congress by 7021 votes.
1998: Jaspal Singh of congress wins
In 1998, the contest was once again between old faces. However, one of them contested as an independent this time. BJP's Brahma Singh Tanwar won. This time he defeated Balram Tanwar, who contested as an independent, by 2607 votes.
2003: Balram Tanwar avenged his defeat twice in a row
In 2003, the results of this seat changed and the seat went to Congress. This time too, the contest was between old faces. However, the old result was not repeated. This time, Balram Tanwar of congress defeated Brahm Singh Tanwar of bjp by 11656 votes.
2013: BJP's Pravesh Verma won
The year 2013 proved to be an important milestone in delhi politics. Apart from congress and bjp, the aam aadmi party, which emerged from the anti-corruption movement, was also in the fray in this election. bjp won the Mehrauli seat. Pravesh Sahib Singh, son of the former chief minister, who contested on a bjp ticket, defeated AAP's Narinder Singh Sejwal by 4564 votes.
2015: AAP got its first victory
In 2015, delhi had to conduct assembly elections again. In 2014, kejriwal resigned after running the government for just 49 days. In february 2014, when the Lokpal Bill could not be passed, arvind kejriwal resigned from the post of chief minister of Delhi. elections were held again in 2015 and Kejriwal returned to power by winning 67 out of 70 seats.
Talking about Mehrauli seat, this time the results were reversed. In this election, AAP's naresh Yadav defeated BJP's Sarita Chaudhary by 16951 votes. AAP got 58125 and bjp got 41174 votes.
2008: congress got the second consecutive victory
In 2008, congress again won the Mehrauli seat. This time Congress's Dr. Yoganand Shastri defeated BJP's Sher Singh Dagar by 1108 votes.
2020: naresh Yadav won for the second consecutive time
In the 2020 assembly elections, aam aadmi party again got a tremendous mandate. AAP won a total of 62 seats out of 70. AAP's naresh Yadav once again won the Mehrauli seat. The AAP candidate defeated BJP's Kusum Khatri by 18,161 votes. AAP got 62417 and bjp got 44256 votes.
How is the equation this time?
This time AAP has cut the ticket of the current mla from Mehrauli and has fielded Mahendra Chaudhary. bjp has given ticket to Gajendra Yadav and congress has given ticket to pushpa Singh.
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