With elections over, the Ministers of Sheila Dikshit Government left for pilgrimage as exit polls predicted reverse trends for the ruling party. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit who kept herself busy by meeting with her party MlAs and officials of Delhi Government, also took feedback about polling trends on Thursday.
Sources said that Dikshit spent the day with her grand daughter and she also met party’s MlA who gave briefing of their constituency about the polling trends.
Two Ministers of Delhi Government, Ramakant Goswami and Prof Kiran Walia, came to meet her and briefed her on polling and exit poll trends in general. Delhi Chief Secretary DM Spolia and her principal secretary MM Kutty also met her in the afternoon, reported to have discussed some matters. Dikshit also attended a function on the occasion of inauguration of Bharatiya Mahila Bank at Nehru Place.
Meanwhile, senior Congress MlA and PWD Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan went to Vaishno Devi on pilgrimage on Thursday. When asked, Chauhan said that the pilgrimage tour was pre-planned and it can not be related to exit polls.
Congress MlA Arvinder Singh lovely, who is Minister of Urban Development, stated that he has spent the day with his family members and sons. In the evening, he watched the Ram-leela with his family.
lovely held a meeting with party workers to assess polling patterns in each polling station in Gandhi Nagar constituency. Transport Minister Ramakant Goswami held a meeting with party workers and later went to meet Dikshit at her residence. Goswami said that he would go for dinner with his family in Connaught Place.
Congress MlA Kunwar Karan Singh spent time with family. Singh met party workers in the morning and discussed exit poll trends. “I also went to a Sai Baba mandir to seek blessings,” he said. Congress MlA Naseeb Singh went to Pushkar on a pilgrimage. Congress MlA Anil Bhardwaj, contesting from Tri Nagar, stayed home with his family. Congress MlA Mukesh Sharma relaxed with son Ankit.