City This Week
Finally the list is out. As
the capital city is celebrating Makar Sankranti with other states and poll
notification has been issued by the Election Commission, the process of
announcement of name of candidates for assembly polls has started. While LJP
and some other parties have already announced the names of candidates, the
ruling AAP too announced the names of its candidates for all 70 assembly seats
in Delhi. Other two major parties BJP and Congress too will announce their
candidates in couples of days.
But the list of AAP is quite
interesting. While, city’s CM heavily relying on women voters for the elections
the list elaborates completely different story. The list of 70 candidates
include less than 15 percent female candidates. Only nine women candidates have
been accomodated in the list although 23 new faces have been included in the
list. Although, 15 new candidates have been accomodated in the list but there
are several allegations and counter allegations started taking place regarding
corruption during the ticket distribution.
The city is already witnessing
some interesting war of words between Delhi’s BJP Chief Manoj Tiwari and city’s
CM Arvind Kejriwal after Bhojpuri actor turned politician Tiwari allegedly appeared
in Kejriwal’s promo. Tiwari slapped rupees 500 crore legal notice on Kejriwal
for defamation. The list of BJP and Congress yet to be appeared as both are
waiting for each other’s strategies.
Delhi’s much-hyped gangrape
case Nirbhaya has now encountered with another twist. As Supreme court rejected
curative petition of two of the convicts and High Court has clearly refused to
put a stay on the death warrants of the convicts the city government has said that
hanging of the convicts could not take place on the scheduled date due to
technical-legal reasons. This clearly means that execution of capital
punishment needs more time.
As
the tussle between agitated students and university administration has started
defusing the JNU and Jamia have now started academic activities. The city too
has taken a sigh of relief as students of both the universities are now
participating in the academic activities rather than the misleading agitations.
However, demands of students and faculty are yet to be fulfilled but process of
dialogue has taken place. Although some of the agitations are still taking
place in the city and some of the protesters have been able to show their
anguish to the PM Narendra Modi as he was going to participate in the global
meet ‘Raisina Dialogue’ in New Delhi. Gobal leaders discussed several issues
including climate change and Iran issue during their discussions.