No hung Assembly, we will win: Dikshit

Rejecting all unfavourable opinion polls, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said she expects a clear mandate from Delhi’s electorate and is confident of a majority for her ruling Congress party in the Delhi Assembly elections.

Refusing to talk about a scenario of a hung assembly after the December 4 voting, she said, “I expect a clear mandate from the electorate.”

“Why should I comment about a possibility of a hung House?” she said.

The chief minister also mocked at some opinion polls indicating a lead for the rival BJP in Delhi.

“I can also give a certificate to myself that I am numero uno,” said the 75-year-old chief minister who has been in power for the last 15 years.

Dikshit was speaking to reporters at her residence where a group of leaders from the Youth Shiromani Akali Dal Delhi joined the Congress. All India Congress Committe
secretary Kuljit Singh Nagara was also present on the occasion.

All India President of the Youth Shiromani Akali Dal Delhi Raja Harpreet Singh had decided to en block join the Congress to strengthen the party which has taken up unprecedented development in the city over the past 15 years.

The Shiromani Akali Dal was supported by the Congress in the elections to Delhi gurdwara elections. The party lost heavily to the rival Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal).

Raja Harpreet Singh slammed the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), which now controls a majority of  gurdwaras in the city, for resorting to malpractices in gurdwara elections and feared that the Badal faction may try to resort to wrongdoings during the Delhi Assembly elections.

“We fear the Badal faction will bring in musclemen, policemen and officials to work for its candidates in the Delhi elections,” said Nagara.

At the same event, Delhi State Meo Sabha, a Muslim group, also extended support to the Congress.

Chief of the sabha, Feroz Khan, said, “All the five lakh supporters of the organisation, spread across Delhi, will support the Congress as it has carried out exceptional development in the last 15 years.”

Dikshit said minorities were safe under the Congress regime.

“There have been no communal tensions during the last 15 years. Our government constituted the Delhi Minorities Commission, gave Urdu the status of second official language and paved way for the empowerment of the minorities by commissioning skill development centres in minority dominated localities,” she said.