2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election explained

Election Name:2013 Delhi state assembly election
Country:India
Type:parliamentary
Previous Election:2008 Delhi Legislative Assembly election
Previous Year:2008
Next Election:Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015
Next Year:2015
Seats For Election:All 70 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Delhi
Majority Seats:36
Opinion Polls:
  1. Opinion polls
Turnout:66.02% (8.42%)
Image1:File:Harsh Vardhan in 2017.jpg
Leader1:Harsh Vardhan
Party1:Bharatiya Janata Party
Leader Since1:2012
Leaders Seat1:Krishna Nagar
Seats Before1:23
Seats After1:32
Seat Change1: 9
Popular Vote1:2,604,100
Percentage1:33%
Swing1: 3.4%
Leader2:Arvind Kejriwal
Party2:Aam Aadmi Party
Leader Since2:2012
Leaders Seat2:New Delhi
Seats Before2:New
Seats After2:28
Seat Change2:New
Popular Vote2:2,322,330
Percentage2:29.5%
Swing2:New
Image3:File:Sheila_Dikshit_Ji.jpg
Leader3:Sheila Dikshit
Party3:Indian National Congress
Leader Since3:1998
Leaders Seat3:New Delhi
(lost)
Seats Before3:43
Seats After3:8
Seat Change3: 35
Popular Vote3:1,932,933
Percentage3:24.6%
Swing3: 15.7%
Chief Minister
Before Election:Sheila Dikshit
Before Party:INC
After Election:Arvind Kejriwal
After Party:Aam Aadmi Party
Map Size:300px
Image4:File:Mayawati.jpg
Leader4:Mayawati
Leaders Seat4:Not Contested
Party4:Bahujan Samaj Party
Percentage4:5.35%
Popular Vote4:420,926
Seat Change4: 2
Seats Before4:2
Swing4: 8.69%
Seats After4:0

The Delhi Legislative Assembly election was held on 4 December 2013, with the result announced on 8 December resulting in formation of the Fifth Legislative Assembly of Delhi.[1] [2]

The Bharatiya Janata Party won a plurality, closely followed by Aam Aadmi Party, in its first election; this resulted in a hung assembly. After the BJP refused to form a government in the hung assembly, the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Arvind Kejriwal became chief minister with external support from the Indian National Congress (INC).[3]

Electoral law change

This was one of the first five elections in which the Election Commission of India implemented a "None of the above" (NOTA) voting option, allowing the electorate to register a neutral to people any think vote but not to outright reject candidates.[4] In a first, the Election Commission of India also appointed Central Awareness Observers, whose main task was to oversee voter awareness and facilitation.[5]

Contesting parties

There were 810 candidates running for office, including 224 independents.[6]

PartySeats contestedChief Minister CandidateNotes/Link to Candidate lists
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) 69 Arvind Kejriwal[7] [8]
All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) 2 [9]
Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) 66 Harsh Vardhan[10] [11]
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 70 [12]
Communist Party of India (CPI) 10
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) 3
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML) (L)4
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) 11 [13]
Indian National Congress (INC) 70 Sheila Dikshit[14] [15]
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) 70 [16]
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) 4 Harsh Vardhan
(as part of NDA)
Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) 1

BJP and SAD formed a pre-poll alliance; SAD contested four seats (Hari Nagar, Rajouri Garden, Kalkaji and Shahdara), while BJP contested the rest.[17]

Campaign

The AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal called the BJP's Harsh Vardhan the "Manmohan Singh of the BJP" as incapable of stemming the "rot" in Delhi's governance. He added: "We will help the people of Delhi get rid of Congress misgovernance first, and then ensure change at the national level in the Lok Sabha polls." However, Vardhan was supported by the BJP's prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 Indian general election, Narendra Modi.[18] The Hindustan Times suggested that the Rajnath Singh-appointed BJP Delhi leader, Vijay Goel, though organisationally competent, lost favour due to his exclusion of established regional leaders in reorganising local units. Singh was still viewed as reluctant to "change horses in mid-stream" but agreed. Modi led the charge, with other party leaders, to have Vardhan as the chief ministerial candidate[19] and Goel himself agreed to the nomination of Vardhan.[20] The AAP released its first electoral manifesto.[21]

Opinion polls

Number of seats

SurveyDateAAPBJPINCOthersSource
AAP-Cicero30 November 201338-5011-178-140-13[22]
BJP (Internal)November 201353611-18 "swing seats where the readings were too close to call"
India TV-CVoterNovember 20131029274
India Today, ORGNovember 2013636224[23]
Times Now, C-VoterNovember 20131825243[24]
CNN-IBN, The Week and CSDSOctober 201319-2522-2819-250-2[25]
ABP News-AC NielsenOctober 20131828222[26]
India TV-CVoter-Times NowSeptember 2013730294[27]
Hindustan Times-C ForeSeptember 20137-1222-2732-370-4[28]

Vote share

SurveyDateAAPBJPINCOthersSource
AAP-Cicero30 November 201336%27%26%11%
BJPNovember 201318%35%24%23%
India TV-CVoterNovember 201324%33%30%13%
CNN-IBN, The Week and CSDSOctober 201328%29%27%16%
ABP News-AC NielsenSeptember 201315%34%29%22%[29]
India TV-CVoter-Times NowSeptember 201316%38%34%12%
Hindustan Times-C ForeSeptember 201320%32%34%14%
AAP-CiceroSeptember 201332%23%25%20%[30]

Election

There were 11,753 polling stations, including the presence of EVMs, while 630 identified as critical and hypercritical. There were 11.9  million eligible voters, of which 6.6  million were men and 5.3  million were women while there were 405,000 first-time voters. 32,801 Delhi Police personnel and 107 companies of central paramilitary forces were deployed to ensure a peaceful election. Polling stations opened at 8:00 am and turnout was 66%.[6]

Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) along with EVMs was used in 1 assembly seat in Delhi elections-New Delhi.[31] [32] Polling stations in Tuglaqabad, Karol Bagh, Trilokpuri and Badarpur reportedly had long waits because EVMs dysfunctioned. In Jungpura, Badli, Krishna Nagar, and Kondli constituencies, some voters complained that their names were on the electoral rolls and that they could not vote.

After voting, party leaders expressed their opinion. Kejriwal said he is confident of a positive result for his party.[33] Vardhan claimed the BJP was "far ahead" of the INC and Aam Aadmi Party. "I can tell you very categorically that we are far ahead of Congress and the new entrant in Delhi politics. I am 100 percent confident about our victory. I think nobody can make any dent in our vote bank. If there is any contest or fight, it is between the Congress and the new entrant (for the second place)." Dikshit said she had her "fingers crossed" on the outcome, while national party leader Sonia Gandhi said from her Nirman Bhavan polling station: "We will win."[6] At many places people with disabilities could not vote due to inaccessible polling booths.[34] [35]

In all over 43,000 postal ballots were received, an increase from the last election's 1,600 postal ballots. The Delhi Election Commission announced that 2,000 Central Paramilitary Force and Delhi Police personnel were at the vote-counting centers in the city on the day of the result announcement and CCTV cameras and live streaming of proceedings through webcasting, two layers of security cover have been set at all the 14 counting centers. Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Dev said: "Paramilitary force forms the inner circle of security of centers while adequate numbers of Delhi Police personnel will ensure safety from outside. Counting of votes will start from 8 AM tomorrow and during the first-hour postal ballots will be counted."[36] The postal ballots were counted before the EVM votes.[37]

Exit polls showed the BJP in the lead to possibly form a government on its own, followed by the AAP and the incumbent INC in third place; others, in general, were fourth with the BSP following.[38]

Result

Notably, the INC's Chaudhary Prem Singh lost in the Ambedkar Nagar constituency, he held the seat since 1993 and had not lost a single election in 50 years; however, Ashok Kumar of the AAP won the seat.[39] Incumbent Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit lost her New Delhi constituency seat to AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal by a margin that was much more than her total votes and winning hardly 500 votes more than the BJP's Vijender Kumar who finished third;[40] she then submitted her resignation to Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung.[41]

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;"! class="unsortable"|! Political party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! Net change
in seats || % of
seats! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in
vote %|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Janata Party| | 66 || 31 || 8 || 44.3 || 2,604,100 || 33.07 || 3|- style="background: #90EE90;"| | style="text-align:left;" |Aam Aadmi Party| | 69 || 28 || New || 40.0 || 2,322,330 || 29.49 || New|- style="background: #90EE90;"| | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress| | 70 || 8 || 35 || 11.4 || 1,932,933 || 24.55 || 15|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Janata Dal (United)| | 27 || 1 || 1 || 1.4 || 68,818 || 0.87 || New|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Shiromani Akali Dal|| 4 || 1 || 1 || 1.4 || 71,757 || 1 || N/A|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Independents|| 225 || 1 || 0 || 1.4 || || 10 || N/A|-|- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! colspan = 4 style="text-align:center;" |Total !! style="text-align:right;" |70 !! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 7,699,800 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout: 66% !!|}

Results by districts

DistrictSeatsBJPAAPINCOthers
North Delhi84310
Central Delhi70421
North West Delhi73211
West Delhi74310
New Delhi62400
South West Delhi76100
South East Delhi73310
South Delhi52300
East Delhi61410
Shahdara54100
North East Delhi53020
Total70322882

Results by constituency

Assembly ConstituencyTurnout
(%)
WinnerRunner UpMargin
NameCandidatePartyVotes%CandidatePartyVotes%
North Delhi District
1Narela68.15Neel Daman KhatriBJP54,62237.95VirenderBSP31,07721.5923,545
Central Delhi District
2Burari65.96Sanjeev JhaAAP60,16437.07Sri KrishanBJP49,81330.6910,351
3Timarpur65.48Harish KhannaAAP39,65035.03Rajni AbbiBJP36,26732.043,383
North Delhi District
4Adarsh Nagar66.44Ram Kishan SinghalBJP36,98538.08Jagdeep RanaAAP26,92927.7310,056
5Badli61.53Devender YadavINC54,37244.60Vijay Kumar BhagatBJP31,26325.6523,109
North West Delhi District
6Rithala64.91Kulwant RanaBJP73,96151.30Harish AwasthiAAP48,13533.3925,286
North Delhi District
7Bawana(SC)61.14Gugan Singh RangaBJP68,40741.10ManojAAP42,76825.6925,639
North West Delhi District
8Mundka63.28Rambir ShokeenIND52,56434.27Azad SinghBJP45,43029.627,134
9Kirari64.21Anil Jha VatsBJP72,28352.15Rajan PrakashAAP23,75717.1448,526
10Sultanpur Majra(SC)63.88Jai KishanINC31,45829.79Sandeep KumarAAP30,34628.741,112
West Delhi District
11Nangloi Jat61.64Manoj Kumar ShokeenBJP57,44942.32Dr. Bijender SinghINC46,43434.2011,015
North West Delhi District
12Mangol Puri(SC)69.73Rakhi BirlaAAP44,38338.42Raj Kumar ChauhanINC33,79829.2510,585
North Delhi District
13Rohini68.15Rajesh GargAAP47,89043.54Jai Bhagwan AggarwalBJP46,01841.841,852
North West Delhi District
14Shalimar Bagh66.62Bandana KumariAAP47,23544.01Ravinder Nath BansalBJP36,58434.0910,651
North Delhi District
15Shakur Basti70.85Satyendra Kumar JainAAP40,23242.30Shyam Lal GargBJP33,17034.877,062
North West Delhi District
16Tri Nagar66.55Nand Kishore GargBJP36,97035.78Jitender Singh TomarAAP34,16133.062,809
North Delhi District
17Wazirpur67.05Dr. Mahender NagpalBJP37,30636.25Praveen KumarAAP31,73230.845,574
18Model Town68.53Akhilesh Pati TripathiAAP38,49239.84Ashok GoelBJP30,61731.697,875
Central Delhi District
19Sadar Bazar66.80Som DuttAAP34,07931.24Jai ParkashBJP33,28330.51796
20Chandni Chowk65.48Parlad Singh SawhneyINC26,33537.77Suman Kumar GuptaBJP18,09225.958,243
21Matia Mahal65.77Shoaib IqbalJD(U)22,73231.72Mirza Javed AliINC19,84127.682,891
22Ballimaran67.47Haroon YusufINC32,10536.18Moti Lal SodhiBJP24,01227.068,093
23Karol Bagh(SC)67.34Vishesh RaviAAP35,81835.06Surender Pal RatawalBJP34,06833.341,750
New Delhi District
24Patel Nagar(SC)65.96Veena AnandAAP38,89937.91Poornima VidyarthiBJP32,63731.816,262
West Delhi District
25Moti Nagar68.99Subhash SachdevaBJP42,59942.42Kuldeep Singh ChannaAAP26,57826.4716,021
26Madipur(SC)68.09Girish SoniAAP36,39335.87Kailash SanklaBJP35,29034.881,103
27Rajouri Garden68.93Manjinder Singh SirsaSAD41,72140.93Dhanwanti ChandelaINC30,71330.1311,008
28Hari Nagar66.69Jagdeep SinghAAP38,91238.81Shyam SharmaSAD30,03629.968,876
29Tilak Nagar66.20Jarnail SinghAAP34,99339.27Rajiv BabbarBJP32,40536.902,088
30Janakpuri69.05Jagdish MukhiBJP42,88639.87Rajesh RishiAAP40,24237.422,644
South West Delhi District
31Vikaspuri63.23Mahinder YadavAAP62,03034.33Krishan GahlotBJP61,62734.10405
32Uttam Nagar69.48Pawan SharmaBJP48,37736.38Mukesh SharmaINC42,03131.616,346
33Dwarka65.51Parduymn RajputBJP42,73437.30Ravi Kumar SuryanAAP37,53732.775,197
34Matiala64.13Rajesh GahlotBJP70,05336.10Gulab Singh YadavAAP66,05134.054,002
35Najafgarh67.96Ajeet Singh KharkhariBJP54,35833.27Bharat SinghINLD44,59031.009,768
36Bijwasan63.15Sat Prakash RanaBJP35,98834.65Devinder SehrawatAAP33,57432.322,414
37Palam63.14Dharam Dev SolankiBJP42,83333.30Bhavna GaurAAP34,66126.798,372
New Delhi District
38Delhi Cantonment60.22Surinder SinghAAP26,12439.67Karan Singh TanwarBJP25,76939.13355
39Rajinder Nagar60.54BJP35,71335.82Vijendar Garg VijayAAP33,91734.021,796
40New Delhi66.93Arvind KejriwalAAP44,26953.46Sheila DikshitINC18,40522.2325,864
South East Delhi District
41Jangpura62.30Maninder Singh DhirAAP29,70136.95Tarvinder Singh MarwahINC27,95734.781,744
42Kasturba Nagar66.56Madan LalAAP33,60938.03Shikha RoyBJP28,93532.744,674
South Delhi District
43Malviya Nagar65.74Somnath BhartiAAP32,25839.43Arti MehraBJP24,48629.937,772
New Delhi District
44R K Puram63.46Anil Kumar SharmaBJP28,01733.17Shazia IlmiAAP27,69132.78326
South Delhi District
45Mehrauli62.06Parvesh VermaBJP37,48138.72Narinder Singh SejwalAAP32,91734.014,564
46Chhatarpur66.12Brahm Singh TanwarBJP49,97545.07Balram TanwarINC33,85130.5316,124
47Deoli(SC)64.22Prakash JarwalAAP51,64643.41Gagan RanaBJP34,53826.0217,108
48Ambedkar Nagar(SC)68.68Ashok Kumar ChauhanAAP36,23942.42Khushiram ChunarBJP24,56928.7611,670
South East Delhi District
49Sangam Vihar64.95Dinesh MohaniyaAAP24,85127.87Shiv Charan Lal GuptaBJP24,07427.00777
New Delhi District
50Greater Kailash66.15Saurabh BhardwajAAP43,09745.26Ajay Kumar MalhotraBJP30,00531.5113,092
South East Delhi District
51Kalkaji63.11Harmeet Singh KalkaBJP30,68333.77Dharambir SinghAAP28,63931.522,044
52Tughlakabad66.19Ramesh BidhuriBJP34,00938.98Sahi RamBSP28,06332.175,946
53Badarpur64.20Ramvir Singh BidhuriBJP43,54434.23Ram Singh NetajiINC31,49023.7712,054
54Okhla58.33Asif Muhammad KhanINC50,00436.34Irfanullah KhanAAP23,45917.0526,545
East Delhi District
55Trilokpuri(SC)69.10Raju DhinganAAP44,08238.93Sunil KumarBJP26,39723.3117,685
56Kondli(SC)67.75Manoj KumarAAP36.86334.17Dushyant Kumar GautamBJP29,37329.227,490
57Patparganj63.95Manish SisodiaAAP50,21141.53Nakul BharadwajBJP38,73532.0411,476
58Laxmi Nagar64.70Vinod Kumar BinnyAAP43,05236.41Dr. Ashok Kumar WaliaINC35,30029.857,752
Shahdara District
59Vishwas Nagar67.09Om Prakash SharmaBJP44,80138.00Naseeb SinghINC37,00231.387,799
East Delhi District
60Krishna Nagar67.78Harsh VardhanBJP69,22258.33Dr. Vinod Kumar MongaINC26,07221.9743,150
61Gandhi Nagar65.86Arvinder Singh LovelyINC48,89748.47Ramesh Chand JainBJP31,93631.6616,961
Shahdara District
62Shahdara67.64Jitender Singh ShuntyBJP45,36442.96Dr Narender NathINC30,24728.6415,117
63Seemapuri(SC)72.63Dharmender SinghAAP43,19937.76Veer Singh DhinganINC31,22327.2911,976
64Rohtas Nagar68.92Jitender MahajanBJP49,91641.34Mukesh HoodaAAP34,97328.9614,943
North East Delhi District
65Seelampur68.50Chaudhary Mateen AhmedINC46,45246.52Kaushal Kumar MishraBJP24,72424.7621,728
66Ghonda65.54Sahab Singh ChauhanBJP47,53139.25Bheeshma SharmaINC35,59929.4011,932
Shahdara District
67Babarpur65.89Naresh GaurBJP34,18029.73Zakir KhanINC29,67336.234,507
North East Delhi District
68Gokalpur(SC)71.68Rajneet SinghBJP34,88827.24Surendra KumarIND32,96625.741,922
69Mustafabad71.76Hasan AhmedINC56,25038.24Jagdish PradhanBJP54,35436.951,896
70Karawal Nagar67.55Mohan Singh BishtBJP49,26234,64Kapil MishraAAP46,17932.473,083

Reactions

Former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said: "We accept our defeat and we will analyze what went wrong. We respect what the people of Delhi have decided and thank them for supporting us for last 15 years."[42]

Government formation

As no party won a majority of the 70 seats in the assembly,[43] if the necessary coalition government is not possible, Delhi would be put under president's rule until a new election is held within six months. However, the INC, BJP, and AAP have all said they would not seek alliances with each other. The other option was to try to bring in independents; though since there are not enough, the media speculated that the other option would be lured away MLAs from another party (the AAP being the most likely in their analysis).[44]

As the BJP won 31 seats, while its alliance partner Shiromani Akali Dal won one seat, they gained a plurality and would have the first right to form a new government. However, they declined the offer from Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung to form a new government citing an inability to obtain a majority. Jung then invited the Aam Aadmi Party to form the government.[45] Kejriwal wrote to BJP national leader Rajnath Singh and INC national leader Sonia Gandhi for clarification on 18 issues before seeking their support in forming a coalition.

On 9 December, Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley wrote a blog suggesting that Congress should support AAP to form government in Delhi. The BJP did not reply and the INC agreed to 16 of the 18 issues and offered its outside support. On 14 December, BJP Chief Ministerial candidate Dr. Harsh Vardhan asked AAP to take congress support and form the government.[46] The AAP then sought public opinion through a variety of mediums such as via community meetings, text messages and pamphlets[47] about whether or not it should take the support of the INC.[48] AAP then formed a minority government with outside support from the INC.[49] In a letter to the Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung, the AAP did not however mention that it has the support of the INC.[50] Jung then sent his recommendations to President Pranab Mukherjee.

Kejriwal was then sworn in as 7th Chief Minister of Delhi on 28 December, leading the First Kejriwal cabinet, the youngest cabinet in Delhi ever.[51] M. S. Dhir was elected as the speaker of the legislative assembly on 3 January 2014.[52]

Amongst its first tasks, the AAP initiated a corruption response mechanism in a "durbar"; it also retracted the FDI in multi-brand retail that the previous government had sanctioned. Kejriwal said that though this would give consumers more options it has been shown that it "leads to loss of jobs to a very large extent. There is huge unemployment in Delhi and the AAP government does not wish to increase this unemployment. Delhi is not prepared for FDI."[53] Yet he added that he was not against FDI by itself but that it needed to occur on a case-by-case basis.[54]

Government resignation

After 49 days, Kejriwal resigned as a chief minister following the failure of the introduction of Delhi's Jan Lokpal Bill in the assembly on 14 February 2014. President's rule was then imposed and the assembly was kept in suspended animation.[55] Fresh elections were scheduled for early 2015.

See also

Notes and References

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  4. News: Will implement voters' right to reject candidates straight away: Election Commission . 27 September 2013. 23 December 2013. The Times of India.
  5. Web site: List of Poll Dates for 2013 Assembly Elections in five states. 5 October 2013. Biharpraprabha.com.
  6. Web site: Delhi elections 2013: Record voter turnout in Delhi, 66% voting registered, EC says. 4 December 2013. 23 December 2013. The Times of India.
  7. Web site: 'Arvind Kejriwal is Aam Aadmi Party's CM candidate' . . 5 October 2013. 23 December 2013.
  8. Web site: AAP ki Candidate List . . 22 September 2013.
  9. News: Left parties eyeing their share in Delhi polls . https://web.archive.org/web/20131123154327/http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/coverage/myindia-myvote/chunk-ht-ui-myindiamyvote-delhi/left-parties-eyeing-their-share-in-delhi-polls/sp-article10-1154752.aspx . dead . 23 November 2013 . . 23 November 2013. 23 December 2013.
  10. News: Backed by Modi and RSS, Harsh Vardhan named BJP's Delhi CM candidate. https://web.archive.org/web/20131023235924/http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/coverage/MyIndia-MyVote/Chunk-HT-UI-MyIndiaMyVote-Delhi/Backed-by-Modi-and-RSS-Harsh-Vardhan-named-BJP-s-Delhi-CM-candidate/SP-Article10-1138799.aspx . dead . 23 October 2013 . The Hindustan Times. 23 October 2013. 23 December 2013.
  11. Web site: BJP candidate list. Bharatiya Janata Party (Delhi unit). 23 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131109075651/http://www.bjpdelhi.org/candidatelist.php. 9 November 2013. dead.
  12. News: BSP to contest all 70 Assembly seats in Delhi: Mayawati . . 6 September 2013. 23 December 2013.
  13. Web site: DMDK releases second list of candidates for Delhi polls . . 8 November 2013. 30 November 2013.
  14. News: Delhi Assembly elections: BJP silent on CM candidate . . 19 September 2013. 23 December 2013.
  15. News: List of Indian National Congress (INC) Candidates for Delhi . Elections.in . 23 December 2013 .
  16. News: NCP to contest all 70 seats in Delhi polls . . 16 July 2013. 23 December 2013.
  17. News: Neelam. Pandey. It's Dikshit against ex-BJP chief, Kejriwal in fight for New Delhi seat. https://web.archive.org/web/20131108225258/http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/coverage/myindia-myvote/chunk-ht-ui-myindiamyvote-delhi/it-s-dikshit-against-ex-bjp-chief-kejriwal-in-fight-for-new-delhi-seat/sp-article10-1147918.aspx. dead. 8 November 2013. . 6 November 2013. 23 December 2013.
  18. Web site: Backed by Modi and RSS, Harsh Vardhan named BJP's Delhi CM candidate . https://web.archive.org/web/20131023235924/http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/coverage/MyIndia-MyVote/Chunk-HT-UI-MyIndiaMyVote-Delhi/Backed-by-Modi-and-RSS-Harsh-Vardhan-named-BJP-s-Delhi-CM-candidate/SP-Article10-1138799.aspx . dead . 23 October 2013 . The Hindustan Times. 30 November 2013.
  19. Web site: Why BJP picked Harsh Vardhan for Delhi CM's race: a word from Modi . https://web.archive.org/web/20131024015535/http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/coverage/MyIndia-MyVote/Chunk-HT-UI-MyIndiaMyVote-Delhi/Why-BJP-picked-Harsh-Vardhan-for-Delhi-CM-s-race-word-from-Modi/SP-Article10-1138929.aspx?hts0021 . dead . 24 October 2013 . . 30 November 2013.
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