Mallica Joshi

Hundreds of men and women, mostly daily wage labourers and those employed in the unorganised sector, face hunger, insecurity and loneliness as cities across the country have gone into a lockdown.

Neighbourhood stores have reported a steep rise in the number of customers placing large orders over the past two-three days.

At the Shahdara office Monday, the civil defence volunteer on duty at the helpdesk was taking down details of those who are applying for compensation. By 3 pm, Monday’s list had 180 names and claims.

"At least 10 people have died. If police are unable to maintain law and order, why is Amit Shah not imposing curfew? Why is the Army not being called in?,” Atishi tweeted.

At swearing-in, Arvind Kejriwal says forgive our opponents for their remarks.

Party insiders say the position of advisors might be revived and newly elected MLAs such as Atishi and Raghav Chadha might be brought back into the government’s framework.

Two areas where the performance came as a surprise to the party are its losses in East Delhi — Laxmi Nagar, Vishwas Nagar, Gandhi Nagar — and North East Delhi — Rohtas Nagar, Karawal Nagar and Ghonda

Like in 2013 and 2015, the swearing-in will be held at Ramlila Maidan and will be open to the public.

A consistent vote share of about 54% in the 2015 and 2020 assembly polls, party leaders feel, is enough indication that people are ready to see AAP in power at the municipal level as well.

Victory nine months after AAP lost all Assembly segments in Lok Sabha polls

Delhi election results explained: With AAP's win, and presuming AAP completes its 5-year term, BJP will be out of power in the National Capital for a total of 27 years.

Delhi Assembly Election Results 2020: Even though the BJP is struggling in the number of seats, it seems to have improved its vote share from the last Assembly election in 2015.

In Chhattarpur, which gave AAP its biggest win in 2015 with a winning margin of 47% votes, almost 63% people turned up to vote. At Deoli, this figure was 63.43%, and at Seemapuri it was 68%.

Much more than 70 seats are at stake in the Delhi Assembly polls that just ended. For AAP, the Feb 11 results will show if its gambit of seeking a mandate on its performance has paid off; for BJP, if Modi name, Hindutva agenda prove stronger than CAA anger.

Kejriwal also said that Home Minister Amit Shah’s campaign, which revolved around “saying Shaheen Bagh, Shaheen Bagh, Shaheen Bagh”, had failed, which is why an “obvious conspiracy” had been hatched to link the Shaheen Bagh shooter to the Aam Aadmi Party.

"Anarchy means the complete state of disrepair of our schools, hospitals, bijli, paani over the last 70 years. In every case of privatisation, the logic given was that since a particular thing is in the government sector, it cannot work," says Arvind Kejriwal in this interview to The Indian Express.

Several residents of Sanoth, which falls in the Narela constituency, said they had voted for AAP in 2015 but will vote for BJP this time.

According to a senior BJP leader, until 10 days ago, the party’s main poll pitch was residents of unauthorised colonies being granted ownership rights and the AAP government refusing to roll out Ayushman Bharat in the capital.

"It’s very clear that the voter wants to see a face they can trust. Of course promises matter, but people want to repose their trust in a person as he/she embodies the ideology and promises which have been made," says Atishi.