New Delhi: While the result of Delhi polls is eagerly awaited, a section of responsible citizens who went to vote yesterday claimed that they have decided not to repeat the choices they had made on the ballot in the 2013 polls.
From youngsters to elderly, the electorate, some driven by "personal experiences" and some by "media reportage", switched allegiance and even frankly admitted it.
22-year-old Shefali, who voted in the high-profile New Delhi constituency, where AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal is pitted against BJP's Nupur Sharma and Congress' Kiran Walia, claimed, she voted for the party which she believed "works for the common man." She said last time she had voted for a "big political Party".
"I work in Noida, so I take a metro for commuting. And, the switch in my allegiance took place after I read some of those advertisements by this party, which talks about vegetable and commodity prices and I thought they could handle it better than big parties," Shefali said.
Facing back-to-back polls, Delhiite Jatin Mallik claimed that this time he wanted a "full-majority" government, so he has decided to go for a party that "had a wave in Lok Sabha polls".
"I had voted for a new party in last polls (2013 Assembly elections) but post the 49-day government, there were lot of issues attached with the party that led that short-lived government and again there were recent media reports that weren't in its favor, so I didn't vote for it again," he said.
Sanjay Gandhi and her mother Shanoo Gandhi too said that they voted for a different party this year, vis-a-vis last time.
Many voted keeping in mind the factor of "Centre-state” government equations, even though they said they still somewhat had "attachment" to the old party, they had picked last time on the ballot.
"I had voted for this upcoming party last polls and still have some allegiance left but after the fall of that
Government in 49 days, I started having second thoughts.
"Also, I believe it is better to have the same government in the state as at the Centre, since Delhi is not enjoying a full statehood, it needs help from the Centre," Kashish Jain, a voter in Gandhi Nagar constituency, said.
Simmi Taneja and daughter Aarzoo Taneja, who voted in Kiran Bedi's Krishna Nagar constituency, said, "Yes, we both voted for a different party than we had chosen last polls.
But, we don't tell each other in our family, which party we gave the ballot to." (With inputs from PTI)
