User:Deepak G Goswami/Politics of Delhi

Delhi is a union territory of India comprising its national capital New Delhi. Politics of Delhi was dominated by two national parties of the country – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (Congress) – for years till 2013 when a newly founded party, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), entered the legislative assembly election and succeeded in winning second most number of seats after the BJP. The National Capital Territory of Delhi is divided into seven Lok Sabha constituencies and seventy legislative assembly constituencies with each Lok Sabha constituency containing ten legislative assemblies. Three seats of the Upper House of the Indian Parliament, Rajya Sabha, are filled by the representatives from Delhi and they are elected by the assembly legislators. Currently the AAP holds sixty-two seats of the Legislative Assembly and the rest eight have BJP legislators. All the seven Lok Sabha representatives are from the BJP and all the three Rajya Sabha members of parliament come from the AAP. Congress which ruled the city till 2013 for 15 years since 1998 under Sheila Dikshit has no representative in either the parliament or the legislative assembly from Delhi. The local civic administration of Delhi is divided among five bodies—the East Delhi Municipal Corporation, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, the New Delhi Municipal Council and the Delhi Cantonment Board. Elections are held to elect the councilors of three corporations with each councilor representing one ward in the respective town hall. The BJP currently rules all these corporations.

Political parties
Three parties dominate the politics of Delhi—the Aam Aadmi Party, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress. Bhujan Samaj Party is another major party which competes in the different elections in Delhi and has elected representatives in municipal corporations. Two political parties are represented in the Legislative Assembly of Delhi–the Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party.