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| Courtesy: The Hindu |
Ashish
Kumar Mishra
New Delhi, April 17: The BJP has retained its power in the Delhi municipal polls winning North
and East corporations and emerged as the single largest party in the south
Delhi Municipality.
The BJP, which won the
municipality polls in 2007, became only the second party, after the congress in 1962, to
have been voted back to power in the trifurcated Municipal
Corporation of Delhi (MCD) .
BJP captured North and East Corporations with a clear
majority while it got 44, nine short of majority in the 104-member House in
South Corporation. The party may hope to get a majority with help from
independents who have bagged 14 wards.
Shocked by the defeat, Congress leaders spoke in different
voices. While Sheila Dikshit's son and MP from East Delhi Sandeep Dikshit admitted that the people of Delhi had voted on national issues like corruption
and price rise, Union Minister Kapil Sibal said
civic polls were fought on local issues and down played the theories of an
anti-Congress mood.
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