New Delhi, September 09: A keen fight is on the cards between candidates of the ruling Congress and opposition BJP in tomorrow’s by-poll to Dwarka assembly constituency here.
The by-poll was necessitated after sitting Congress MLA Mahabal Mishra was elected to the Lok Sabha from Delhi West.
During the campaigning, which reached a peak during the last few days, Congress candidate Tilottama Chaudhry highlighted the developmental work carried out by the government.
On the other hand, BJP aspirant Praduman Rajput sought to puncture the Congress claims by raising issues like spiralling prices of essential commodities and acute shortage of power and water.
Rajput, vice-president of the party’s Najafgarh district unit, who had lost to Mishra in the November Assembly polls, is banking on total support of the 35,000 Rajput voters in the constituency having an electorate of 1.42 lakh.
Independent candidate Babu Ram Rajput, who had contested the last Assembly election from neighbouring Palam seat on a BSP ticket, is also in the fray and could make a dent in the vote bank of both Congress and BJP.
In the last assembly polls, Congress had pipped BJP to the post by nearly 14,000 votes.
—Agencies