Delhi Assembly Election 2025: Voting for the 70-member assembly of the country's capital Delhi will be held on February 5, while the counting of votes will be done three days later on February 8. The Election Commission announced the election dates here on Tuesday. The term of the Delhi Assembly is ending on February 23. As soon as the dates were announced, BSP chief Mayawati has said that her party will contest this election.

The BSP supremo wrote on social media, ‘The general election of Delhi Assembly will be held in one phase on 5 February 2025. The announcement made by the Election Commission in this regard is welcome. BSP is fighting this election on its own strength with full preparation and strength. It is expected that the party will definitely perform well in this election.’

Mayawati further wrote in her post, ‘Elections are the backbone of democracy and BSP, a party of the poor and the oppressed which stays away from muscle power and money power, expects from the Election Commission that in order to conduct free and fair elections, it will protect the elections from being contaminated by communalism and other disgusting propaganda along with misuse of government machinery.’
 

BSP chief appealed.
She wrote on social media, 'I appeal to the voters that they should not get swayed by any party's tempting promises and should use their votes wisely and vote only for the candidates of BSP party who are dedicated to public interest and public welfare. This is the only place where public and national interest is contained and secured.'

There are 70 assembly seats in Delhi out of which 58 are reserved for general category while 12 seats are reserved for scheduled castes. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar told a press conference that there are a total of 1.55 crore registered voters in Delhi and among them 83.49 lakh are men and 71.74 lakh are women.

He said that the number of young voters (20 to 21 years old) is 28.89 lakh while the number of youth eligible to vote for the first time is 2.08 lakh. There will be a total of 13,033 polling stations at 2697 places in the capital and 210 of these will be model polling stations. 36 MLAs are required for a majority in the Delhi Assembly.