A high-octane electoral battle was going on in New Delhi on Wednesday as voters started voting in the morning to select the next government of the Indian capital.
In the elections for 70 assembly seats in Delhi, the political giants of the country have been seen closed in three-way competition.
The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led by anti-corruption cruser Arvind Kejriwal, is fighting opposing-disrespect for a decade after Beg.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – which is ready to return to Delhi after 27 years in the national level alliance.
India’s main opposition Congress party – which is part of an alliance with AAP and other opposition parties, is formed to challenge Modi’s BJP in the 2024 general elections – putting itself against AAP and BJP in Delhi. .
The polling across the city began at the local time period (UTC) at 7 pm and will end at 6 pm (UTC).
The result wants to be declared on Saturday.
Intensive campaign
In the weeks of elections, parties carried forward their campaign with road shows, rallies and press conferences.
Both Modi and his stock critic Kejriwal have promised to improve voters with handouts, improve government schools, free electricity and health services, and therefore a monthly allowance of more than Rs 2,000 ($ 23) to the poor.
Kejriwal said on the social media platform X, “Your vote is not just a button, it is the foundation of your children’s bright future. It is an opportunity to provide good schools, excellent hospitals and sometimes respectable life. . ” On people to vote.
Modi on Wednesday urged voters to exercise their franchise, which was called the election as the “festival of democracy”.
Many political pundits called the Congress’ campaign lacking, but in the last week of the drive, the party raised the pace, in which Scon Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi held 12 public meetings.
Kejriwal’s crisis
AAP scored 62 seats in the last election in 2020 and Kejriwal was elected Chief Minister. But the leader has been involved in legal problems in the arrest in March last year, which is arrest in March just one month before the parliamentary elections, on allegations of corrupt allocation of liquor license.
Kejriwal stepped as the top Delhi minister after the Supreme Court allowed the release of bail in September.
The designer civil servant said that he was putting his fate in the hands of the public.
The AAP has allegations of Graft and has accused the Modi government of using federal agencies, which are in the form of tools to raids and arrests with political challenges.
Edited by: saim dusan inayatullah
