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Home / News / India News / Intense and bitter campaign ends; Delhi casts its vote today
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    Intense and bitter campaign ends; Delhi casts its vote today

    Shalini Ojha
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    Shalini Ojha
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    Last updated on Feb 08, 2020, 08:39 am
    Intense and bitter campaign ends; Delhi casts its vote today
  • Polling in Delhi began at 8 am today with residents thronging booths to register their electoral voice.

    Over 1.47 crore voters of Delhi are expected to participate in Assembly Elections and decide whether Arvind Kejriwal will return as the Chief Minister or not.

    With Congress almost out of the picture, it's a head-on battle between Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

  • In this article
    Cops, home guards, paramilitary forces will ensure seamless polling Shaheen Bagh residents have decided to vote in batches Supporters from Punjab will help protesters today Here are the visuals from Shaheen Bagh Students of Jamia temporarily shifted their protest Shaheen Bagh ruled BJP's high-octane campaign AAP placed bets on its performance External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar got inked
  • Arrangements

    Cops, home guards, paramilitary forces will ensure seamless polling

    Cops, home guards, paramilitary forces will ensure seamless polling
  • To ensure smooth polling, the Election Commission has made elaborate arrangements, complete with the deployment of nearly 40,00 police personnel.

    19,000 home guards and 190 companies of paramilitary forces are also stationed at the National Capital.

    A great deal of attention has been given to Shaheen Bagh, where a protest against new citizenship law has been continuing for almost 55 days now.

  • Shaheen Bagh

    Shaheen Bagh residents have decided to vote in batches

    Shaheen Bagh residents have decided to vote in batches
  • Yesterday, at least three SHOs of the South-East district visited Shaheen Bagh to understand the on-ground situation. Not only cops but volunteers are also lending a hand to ensure no untoward incident jeopardizes the polling process.

    "In the morning, the youngsters will go and cast their vote while the elderly will sit here. After 2-3 pm, the youngsters will sit here," a volunteer said.

  • Plans

    Supporters from Punjab will help protesters today

  • Considering how just seven days ago an armed man fired bullets near the protest site, the people associated with the agitation are being extra cautious.

    A supporter, who came from Punjab's Munga, said they don't trust cops.

    "We will sit here the entire day; we won't go to our tents or leave till there's an adequate number of people on the ground," he added.

  • Twitter Post

    Here are the visuals from Shaheen Bagh

  • A queue of voters at a polling booth in Shaheen Public School in Shaheen Bagh, Okhla. AAP's Amanatullah is the sitting MLA and 2020 candidate of the party, he is up against Congress's Parvez Hashmi and BJP's Brahm Singh Bidhuri. #DelhiElections2020 pic.twitter.com/4hB60BtqGd

    — ANI (@ANI) February 8, 2020
  • Jamia

    Students of Jamia temporarily shifted their protest

    Students of Jamia temporarily shifted their protest
  • Not far from Shaheen Bagh, students of Jamia Millia Islamia University have decided to relocate their agitation from gate number 7.

    "The polling booth is 100 meters away from the Jamia protest site so we have moved and will return on February 9," a member of Jamia Coordination Committee told Indian Express.

    All five polling stations in the area have been termed "critical".

  • Campaign

    Shaheen Bagh ruled BJP's high-octane campaign

  • The ongoing agitation against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) occupied the campaign too, especially BJP's. Shaheen Bagh protest was termed breeding ground of suicide bombers by Union Minister Giriraj Singh.

    Other leaders too, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, hinted that the election is a battle between nationalist and anti-nationalist forces

    AAP was accused of emboldening "seditious" elements.

  • AAP

    AAP placed bets on its performance

    AAP placed bets on its performance
  • This is AAP's first attempt to retain power after it was awarded a stunning mandate in 2015. Of the 70 Assembly seats, AAP scooped away 67.

    Kejriwal is confident the freebies, subsidies, and revamped education will help him win.

    Expressing the same emotion, his deputy Manish Sisodia said this morning, "Today, people of Delhi will vote for better education and future for their children."

  • Twitter Post

    External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar got inked

  • Delhi: External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar has cast his vote at the polling station set up at NDMC School of Science Humanities Education at Tuglak Cresent. He says, "it is basic duty of every citizen to vote. It is important to get out there and contribute." pic.twitter.com/y8quQkTS8L

    — ANI (@ANI) February 8, 2020
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