As the date for Delhi Assembly elections was declared on Monday, ticket seekers were seen making a beeline at the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee office on Tuesday.
Party Chief Spokesperson Mukesh Sharma said that the party has been getting many applications for each of the 70 Assembly seats. "The selection of candidates will be done only after taking their popularity, commitment and winning ability into consideration.
Congress Delhi unit president Subhash Chopra said the party is well-positioned in Delhi and the Congress will form Government on its own. "We have asked party workers to make door to door visit to tell people about our brilliant track record in the past. He exhorted the Congress workers to expose the "hollow promises" and failures of both the BJP and Aam Aadmi Party in the past six years. Taking a swipe at some pre-election surveys, Chopra said that some surveys had predicted only three seats to the Congress during the Haryana Assembly elections and these pollsters had to eat their words after the results were announced. Sharma also said that both BJP and AAP have been shaken up by the strong position of the party in Delhi, and that was the reason these parties were resorting to false propagandas in a futile bid to retrieve their fast-eroding support base.