Rithala assembly constituency is one of the seventy assembly constituencies of Delhi in northern India. Rithala assembly constituency is a part of North West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency.
In 2015, Rithala assembly constituency had 66 percent voter turnout. In the Delhi Assembly Elections 2015, Ajesh Yadav from AAP won this seat bagging 93,470 votes and beating Kulwant Rana from BJP who received 64,219 votes. In 2020, Aam Aadmi Party has fielded Pawan Sharma. Other prominent faces to contest the 2020 state assembly election from Rithala Assembly are Pradeep Kumar Pandey of Congress and Manish Chaudary of Bharatiya Janata Party.
Full list of candidates for Rithala assembly who will contest Delhi Assembly Election 2020:
1. Mohinder Goyal from Aam Aadmi Party
2. Manish Chaudary from Bharatiya Janata Party
3. Pradeep Kumar Pandey from Congress
4. Shiv Nandan Singh from Bharatiya Sampuran Krantikari Party
5. Vijay Kumar from Rashtra Nirman Party
6. Suraj Kumar from Akhil Bharatiya Jan Shakti Party
7. Waheed Khan from Tipu Sultan Party
8. Vidya Pati, an Independent candidate
9. Alok Dixit, an Independent candidate
10. TRIBENI PRASAD, an Independent candidate
11. ANAB MULLA from Asankhya Samaj Party
Assembly elections in Delhi will be held on February 8 in what promises to be a high stake triangular contest with the AAP hoping to retain power on the plank of development and the BJP and the Congress determined to put up a spirited challenge. Announcing the 1-day poll for the 70-member Assembly, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora told a news conference on Monday that counting of votes will be taken up on February 11.
Over 1.46 crore voters can exercise their franchise, according to the final electoral roll published on January 6. There are total 1,46,92,136 voters — 80,55,686 males, 66,35,635 females and 815 belonging to third gender — in the final voters list. All voters will be provided QR code-enabled voters slip which will speed up voting through easy identification.
This time Delhi will have 13,659 polling stations as compared to 11,763 in 2014, a jump of 16.89 per cent, according to an EC press note. The Commission has decided to extend the facility of postal ballot for “absentee voters”, people with disability and those above 80 years of age in all 70 assembly constituencies. In October last year, the government had amended election rules to allow “absentee voters” to vote by postal ballot.
Electors on duty in polling station, electors who are above 80 years of age and the electors marked as ‘Persons with Disabilities’ in the Electoral Roll will have the option to seek postal ballot paper for casting their vote. The facility of absentee voter status was provided for the first time in the country in seven assembly constituencies in Jharkhand which went to polls recently.