New Delhi: As elections for 70 assembly constituencies are progressing, Congress’ New Delhi candidate Sandeep Dikshit casts his vote.

When asked about the slim voter percentage in the morning, he replied it may be due to the cold climate. Since the percentage has attained 20 percentage right, it will pick it up; hopes that between 3 PM to 5 PM vote percentage will increase, he added.

He further requested the people to cast vote. “Come and cast your votes. Vote for development. Vote for the candidate who you find as the rightful one, who could do the work for you and make a better Delhi.”

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As AAP national convenor and former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal fights to retain a third consecutive term from the New Delhi seat, Congress’s Sandeep Dikshit and BJP’s Parvesh Verma makes the battle a fierce triangular one.

For Sandeep, who is contesting from New Delhi seat the political battle is personal and it is about retaining once family stronghold and legacy. In 2013 Assembly election, Kejriwal won the New Delhi seat by trouncing sitting MP Sheila Dikshit. Congress failed to retrieve the seat in the successive election.

Sandeep is known for his staunch criticism of Arvind Kejriwal and the AAP. He represented the East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency in 2004 and 2009. Before entering into politics, he served as the chief of social development group Sanket Information and Research Agency Private Limited and faculty member at O. P. Jindal Global University.

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Voting for the 70 assembly seats in Delhi is progressing and counting of the votes will take place on February 8. In the 2020 Assembly polls, AAP secured a massive victory, winning 62 out of 70 seats, while BJP won 8 seats. However, the Congress failed to secure any seats in the election.