Its only four seats. But the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is all set to put its best foot forward in the Delhi assembly polls. All cabinet ministers,MLAs and district party presidents are landing in Delhi tomorrow for the first strategy meeting and kick start its campaign. All MLAs and cabinet ministers will stay in Delhi from tomorrow. We are tackling these elections on a war footing. I ll be camping here from November 25 till the elections said SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal talking to The Indian Express. SAD candidates are contesting from Rajouri Garden,Hari Nagar,Shahdara and Kalkaji. We are going to win on all the four seats. From where we began six years ago to now there is a marked change in our party's position in Delhi. We have shown good results in the municipal elections. We won the Delhi gurudwara polls and now we are going to have an impact in the assembly polls, said Sukhbir. Micro planning the elections and going down to every votes,SAD has planned to have one senior party leader in charge of a ward of every 1000 voters. The divisions have been done. The duties will be distributed tomorrow. We are giving our best, added Sukhbir. The Rajouri garden seat is the party's best bet and SAD is banking on a predominant Sikh population there. Its candidate Manjinder Singh Sirsa has won the DSGMC polls here defeating former DSGMC president and heavyweight Paramjit Singh Sarna by a margin of 4554 votes. Sirsa is the president of youth wing of Delhi unit of SAD and general secretary of DSGMC. In the last assembly polls in 2008,the SAD candidate here Avtar Singh Hit was defeated by the Congress candidate Adyanand Chandela by a razor thin margin of 46 votes. Sirsa was fielded by SAD from Jangpura in 2008 against the Congress candidate and he had lost by almost 14000 votes. The party will be fighting using its own symbol (scales) from here. From Hari Nagar SAD has fielded a Punjabi Hindu candidate Shyam Lal Sharma to cash in on the predominant Punjabi trading class voters in the area. A councilor from Janakpuri (north) ward of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Sharma resigned from the BJP to join the party,which will be again a contest using SAD's symbol. In 2008 BJP candidate Harsharan Singh Balli had won the seat with over 28000 votes and continues to be a BJP stronghold. SAD also has a fair chance to win the Shahdara seat. It has fielded Jatinder Singh Shanty who is councilor of East Delhi Municipal Corporation from Jhilmil. Shanty has been actively working in the area and it will be impossible to defeat him, said Sukhbir. Shanty had contested the 2008 polls from this seat on the BJP symbol in lost by a thin margin of 1536 votes. Harmeet Singh Kalka who is secretary general of youth wing of Shiromani Akali Dal-Badal and joint secretary DSGMC would contest from Kalkaji constituency. Here the BJP candidate had lost to the Congress candidate in 2008 by over 13000 votes and is the SAD's weakest wicket. Sukhbir said that though SAD has never won a single seat in the assembly polls earlier,there was much that the candidates had to talk about. We may not be able to harp on our achievements but there is enough that the Congress had done which can be spoken about. There is a palpable anti-Congress wave in Delhi. BJP and SAD is going to sweep the polls, he said.
