<span style="color: #222222;">Congress's performance in the Delhi assembly election touched a new low today. 63 of party candidates lost their deposits. Most of Congress candidates got less than 5 per cent of the total votes polled in their constituencies.<br />'' <br />''The party, which ruled Delhi for 15 years on the trot failed to open its account for the second consecutive assembly election in Delhi.<br />''<br />''Only three of its candidates, Arvinder Singh Lovely from Gandhi Nagar, Devender Yadav from Badli and Abhishek Dutt from Kasturba Nagar managed to save their deposits. The party had fielded 66 candidates and gave three seats to its ally RJD.<br />''<br />''The security deposit of a candidate is forfeited if he or she fails to secure one-sixth of the total valid votes cast in a constituency.<br />''<br />''Delhi Congress chief Shubhash Chopra's daughter Shivani Chopra, who was the party candidate from Kalkaji, also could not save her deposit. The party's campaign committee chairman Kirti Azad's wife, Poonam Azad, lost badly and stood fourth with just 2.23 per cent votes in Sangam Vihar.</span>