The Hindu 06.05.2013
Nearly 50 per cent voting in by-polls for two municipal corporation wards
About 50 per cent turnout was recorded in the
by-elections held to the two municipal wards – Nangloi East and Yamuna
Vihar – of Delhi Municipal Corporations, voting for which was held on
Sunday. Delhi State Election Commissioner Rakesh Mehta told
The Hindu
that elections in both the wards were totally peaceful and no violent
incident was reported. He said while the turnout was 47.1 per in the
Nangloi East ward of North DMC, in the Yamuna Vihar ward in East DMC
about 53.6 voters exercised their franchise.
The
Nangloi East seat had fallen vacant after the death of Congress
councillor Satyam Yadav, who died on November 8 last year. The election
to the other constituency, Yamuna Vihar, was necessitated by the death
of Councillor Vijay Bahal. She died on February 14 this year.
Being
held in the same year as the Delhi Assembly elections, the by-polls to
the two wards, which are reserved for women, are very crucial for both
the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Party
sources said these elections would also provide the political pundits
and the two rival parties an idea about the issues, which are high on
the voters’ agenda. “At the same time, it should not be forgotten that
Delhi in the past too has often voted quite differently in the municipal
and Assembly elections,” said a senior politician.
As
for the turnout on Sunday, it was at par with what has been witnessed
in the past. In Nangloi East 27,524 voters out of a total of 58,432 came
out to cast their votes. The voting was more in the Yamuna Vihar ward
where 22,694 voters of the total of 42,267 turned up.
