New delhi sources stated that according to the poll agencies the india NATIONAL CONGRESS' target='_blank' title='congress-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>congress, which governed delhi under Sheila Dikshit for three consecutive terms, seems to be continuing its downward slide in the metropolitan. Furthermore having touched a historic low of under 10 per cent in the last elections, india NATIONAL CONGRESS' target='_blank' title='congress-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>congress is likely to be restricted to single digits again. The average number of seats that the pollsters are giving to india NATIONAL CONGRESS' target='_blank' title='congress-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>congress on eve of voting is 1.
Perhaps the C Voter and Times Now-Ipsos have predicted a vote share of 6 per cent for the grand old party. Axis My india has predicted that it would get 5 per cent votes. Since the restoration of delhi assembly, which was dissolved in 1991 when it was turned into a union territory, india NATIONAL CONGRESS' target='_blank' title='congress-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>congress touched its highest point in 2003. This was the election in which india NATIONAL CONGRESS' target='_blank' title='congress-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>congress under the leadership of Sheila Dikshit was fighting to return to power. The party finished first, by a huge margin, bagging close to 48% votes.
Moreover the party’s fortunes slid slightly in 2008 elections when it still managed to get a respectable 40.31 per cent. In 2013, possibly the only time delhi polls were a tri-cornered contest, it got 24.6 per cent. And its rout was signaled in 2015 when it couldn’t even manage double digits, and for the first time in Delhi’s history, got zero seats. Moreover apart from a handful of rallies in Old delhi, Jangpura, Sangam vihar, the gandhi siblings rahul gandhi and priyanka gandhi largely remained absent from the capital.
