Opinion/Commentary
Independents, small parties spoiled the show for Cong -
Neelam Pandey and Hamari Jamatia, Hindustan Times
They may not have secured many seats, but parties such as the Samajwadi Party (SP), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) as well Independents did their job well - denting the vote share of the two major parties, the BJP and Congress. In fact, their gain was mostly the Congress party's loss. Data released by the Delhi State Election Commission shows that in North Delhi, these parties hit the Congress so bad that it was nearly 10% behind the BJP. In East Delhi, considered a Congress stronghold, the party suffered as independent candidates secured more than 15% of the total votes polled.
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