Shakti Prakash Singh

Congress candidate Archana Sharma eyes victory in Malviya Nagar

November 21, 2023

The Malviya Nagar seat, which came into existence after delimitation in the 2008 assembly elections, has been under the control of the BJP for 15 years. However, the way Congress was defeated with a significant margin of 1704 votes in 2018, indicates that this time the BJP will have to...

Adarsh Nagar’s battle: Congress and BJP in tight race

November 20, 2023

Adarsh Nagar is one of the Muslim-majority assembly constituencies in the capital. After coming into existence in 2008 following delimitation, this seat remained a stronghold of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for 10 years, but in the 2018 elections, Congress succeeded in breaking the BJP’s dominance on this seat. In...

Battle of former bureaucrats takes centre stage in Bassi

November 17, 2023

Bassi assembly seat, reserved for the Scheduled Tribe (ST), adjacent to the capital, is such a seat, where the voters vote not for any party but for the individual. The result of this is that from the 2008 assembly elections till 2018, only independent candidates are winning from here. The...

BJP’s gamble: Hawa mahal’s head priest in election battle

November 16, 2023

The party whose candidate has won here for the past 20 years forms the government in the state. Although Hawa Mahal is considered a stronghold for the BJP, the region is predominantly Muslim. About 34.7% of the population here is Muslim, but the seat has been consistently won by Brahmin...

Battle of the Brahmins: Sanganer’s electoral drama unfolds

November 15, 2023

On the Sanganer assembly seat in Jaipur district, Congress has only secured 2 wins out of the 10 assembly elections held since its inception in 1977, despite losing by only 8 points. For the past 20 years, Congress has been eagerly yearning for victory here. The Sanganer seat in Jaipur...

Kishanpole constituency: Unpacking changing political dynamics

November 9, 2023

In the Kishanpole constituency, elections are fought on the basis of religion, with Congress and BJP pursuing mutually opposing electoral strategies, and the presence of a third party is not visible. Kishanpole is the only assembly constituency in Jaipur district where the number of voters has decreased. In this region,...

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