Election tracker live: Want of change may be wiping out Cong in Delhi

8.24 pm: Want of change may be wiping out Cong in Delhi

Congress dominated urban India in 2009. What has changed now?

"The economy growth story has failed. Everyone wants a change," says Manini Chatterjee.

She says that people have decided that Congress is not the party of the future at the moment.

"The three generation of urban depth has helped Kejriwal," says Dipankar Gupta.

But does Kejriwal Congress to bring down his government before the Lok Sabha elections?

Bhupendra Choubey says there is no doubt. "Kejriwal says she will act against Sheila Dikshit on the CWG scam. If her reall does that, what is the option left before the Congress?"

8.17 pm: 'Kejriwal is the attraction in Delhi'

Are the numbers in favour of AAP surprising?

Dipankar Gupta says, "Most of urban areas of India has changed because they are now more educated. That is why the AAP is so attractive. Kejriwal is an educated person who gave up riches to go to rags unlike other politicians."

"People are hoping that Kejriwal will do something better in the next few months," says Gupta.

8.13 pm: BJP needs bigger ideas than Kejriwal, says Swapan Dasgupta

Bhupendra Choubey says, "When was the last time you say a CM sitting with the people on street. Kejriwal seems to be connecting with people and touching a chord, like Modi."

But why is there a swing toward AAP, while in the rest of India it is swinging towards BJP?

Sandeep Shastri says, "You see a swing towards BJP only where they are in power."

Also, Dasgupta says that it is because Kejriwal has been able to dominate the mindspace of the people. "Kejriwal has an idea, unless the BJP comes up with a bigger idea in the context of Delhi it will be in trouble," he says

8.07 pm: Delhi may vote differently for LS polls

Meanwhile Manini Chatterjee was of the opinion that while Delhiites may like Arvind Kejriwal as PM, things might be different during Lok Sabha elections.

Dipankar Gupta says that a large number of people may vote for Kejriwal. "His party looks much more viable today," Gupta says.

8.05 pm: AAP edge won't go easily, says Swapan Dasgupta

Sandeep Shastri says it is clearly seems to have the AAP wave during the time when the polls was done

However, Swapan Dasgupta says that the honeymoon period of AAP may be longer than we think.

"I don't think that the edge that they have will go away so easily," he says.

 

8.00 pm: 74% of Delhi says they are satisfied with AAP

Arvind Kejriwal, for a person quite new in the political scene, got brilliant results and is not the CM.The numbers in favour of him and his Aam Aadmi Party, in a poll conducted by CSDS for the Lokniti-IBN poll tracker are almost gushing in their support. A massive 74 percent of Delhi's polled respondents say they are satisfied with the performance of the AAP government over the last few weeks, while 76 percent say that they are satisfied with Kejriwal's performance as the Chief Minister for Delhi.

8.00 pm: Congress takes a beating in Hindi-heartland as well

After taking a look at east, south and west India, the Lokniti-IBN National Tracker for Lok Sabha elections today looks at which party will fare better in north India if the polls were held right now. And like the other states, except for Karnataka, it seems that in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh too the Congress has taken a beating.

Meanwhile in the national capital it is Arvind Kejriwal who seems to have captured the fancy of the Delhiites, but this was of course, before the dharna.

Representational image. Reuters

What seems to be a death knell for the Congress and its allies is that the important state of UP with 80 Lok Sabha seats, is leaning towards the BJP.

The Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party government, at the moment, is not really making the people of UP happy and Mulayam should be a worried man.