New Delhi, June 7
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today directed its focus on the Delhi Legislative polls and as a step forward, it has constituted a campaign committee whose work would be overseen by party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal.

The decision comes following the second day of the AAP national executive committee (NEC) meet and the party is likely to make the announcement tomorrow at a formal briefing in the national Capital.

Confirming the development, NEC member Prof Anand Kumar told The tribune, "In Delhi, we are planning to raise our voter percentage to at least 40 per cent. We have created a committee under Arvind Kejriwal for campaigning in the run-up to the Delhi Assembly elections. The party has already made its mark and now we will work towards becoming an alternative to the BJP and Congress for voters of Delhi."

Claiming that AAP has hold on the affairs of Delhi, it took on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance, accusing the saffron party of ignoring the power crisis faced by people in Delhi over the last few days.

"Major power cuts all across Delhi. BJP needs to explain and take immediate action," tweeted former Delhi Chief minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal who did his best to keep the flock together.

Senior party leaders said at a time when Delhi is reeling from power crisis, senior bureaucrats have gone to study the Gujarat model.

Noting that this reflects wrong priorities of those running the Delhi administration in the absence of an elected government, they said, "The unjustified and long power cuts across different parts of the national Capital are unacceptable. The central government appears unconcerned."

The party further questioned the "kid glove" approach of the BJP-led central government in dealing with the private power discoms equating its conduct with that of the former regimes of the Congress at the centre.

The AAP did not spare the Congress either as it took on both the Congress-led UPA and the BJP-led NDA central governments saying that since February 14, first the former and now the latter have been ruling Delhi by proxy and both of them need to explain whether discoms were directed to ensure adequate electricity supply.

New Delhi, June 7
A 60-year-old woman was killed in a scuffle between two families as her husband allegedly created a ruckus in an inebriated condition in north Delhi's Civil Lines, police said today.

She fell down and lost consciousness after being pushed allegedly by her nephews. She was later declared dead in hospital, according to the police.

The deceased has been identified as Yashoda, a resident of Chandrawal, Civil Lines. She lived with her husband Narayan Dass and 34-year-old son Gopal.

According to the police, the scuffle took place after Narayan returned home drunk on Thursday.

"Narayan used to create scenes in the area and was often involved in heated arguments with his neighbours," said a police officer, privy to the details of the case. It is alleged that Narayan abused his nephews after an argument at around 9 pm on Thursday.

Later, Narayan's nephews, Ishwar, Manoj and Veeru, went to his house and confronted him over the issue. Yashoda and Gopal were also at home. "In a fit of rage, Narayan's nephews beat him," said the officer.

Yashoda and Gopal tried to intervene in the fight. The three brothers allegedly manhandled them. Gopal told the police that Ishwar slapped Yashoda, while Manoj and Veeru pushed her. Yashoda lost consciousness after falling down. Gopal then made a call to the police.

Yashoda was taken to the Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital at Civil Lines in a PCR van, but was declared dead. A case under section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at the Civil Lines police station.

Yashoda's body was handed over to her family after a postmortem at the Subzi Mandi mortuary on Friday. "No arrest has been made so far as no external injury marks were established in the initial postmortem. We are waiting for further report in the case," said the officer.

New Delhi, June 
The opposition against the Delhi University's Four Year Undergraduate Programme is growing shriller.

While a five-member delegation of BJP-leaning ABVP met Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani, on the other hand, the relay hunger strike of the representatives from the Congress-backed NSUI entered its second day today. Both the factions are demanding an immediate rollback of the FYUP course.

The DUSU has also got an appointment to meet the minister on Monday.

Those participating in the relay hunger strike of the NSUI led by Mohit Sharma, national general secretary and Delhi in-charge are: DUSU secretary Karishma Thakur, NSUI Delhi president Vikash Chikara, former DUSU president Vishal Chaudhary and vice-president Varun Khari.

They said the Delhi University administration continues to be insensitive to the issue and not a single university official attempted to have a discussion with the protestors.

"The administration went to extent of disconnecting the electricity being supplied to the site of protest throughout the night. Such behaviour on the part of the university confirms the dictatorial ways of the Vice-Chancellor," they added.

The ABVP delegation submitted a memorandum to the minister which also highlighted the demands of new colleges, more hostels and filling in permanent teaching and non-teaching positions in the university.

Meanwhile, the DU administration today declared the results of the first year of the FYUP and B.Tech courses ahead of schedule. The results are available on the university website.

New Delhi, June 7
A 28-year-old man allegedly attempted to hang himself from the iron grills of the lockup at south-east Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin police station on Friday morning.

The man, identified as Salman, is out of danger and has been sent to jail. The police had arrested him for allegedly stealing a water-motor from a house at south-east Delhi's Jangpura area on Thursday.

He was arrested and kept at the lockup of the Hazrat Nizamuddin police station.

"At about 9.15 am on Friday morning, he tore a blanket inside the lockup with his hands, tied a noose to the iron grills of the lockup and used it in vain to hang himself. Our guard who was outside the lockup noticed it and took him outside," said a police officer, privy to the details of the case.

Salman was taken to the AIIMS hospital in south Delhi and discharged on Friday. He was then sent to jail.

The officer said that two cases have been registered against Salman. One case has been registered under Section 309 (attempt to commit suicide) and the second in regard to the theft of the Indian Penal Code, the officer added.

New Delhi, June 7
The official residence of a Deputy Director of the Intelligence Bureau in New Delhi was burgled at the beginning of this month and cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees were stolen from there.

Rajesh Subarno is a Deputy Director of the Intelligence Bureau in Imphal, Manipur.

He is an Indian Police Service officer of the West Bengal cadre.

Subarno in his complaint to the Tughlak Road police station has mentioned that on the intervening night of June 1 and 2, unidentified thieves broke into his official residence at Rabindra Nagar in New Delhi. They allegedly stole jewellery worth lakhs of rupees, Rs 65,000 in cash and other valuables such as two laptops worth Rs 65,000 from the house.

"All the doors of the house and cupboards were locked when they left the house," said Subarno.

He said when the theft was committed, his family was in Imphal with him. He said that his apartment is located in a gated colony and very few outsiders visit the colony at odd hours. He said that the absence of his and his family could not have been revealed to any passerby, because of the location of his apartment on the first floor.

However, he said, "The absence of my family and myself from the house is most likely to be evident to the labourers working in the opposite flat."