Delhi Assembly elections: Voting begins in 13,766 polling stations

Voting for the Delhi Assembly elections began at 7 am on Wednesday, with 699 candidates in the fray.

Polling is taking place in a single phase across 13,766 polling stations set up at 2,696 locations for over 1.5 crore eligible voters to cast their ballot. Booths will be open till 6 pm.

The votes will be counted on Saturday.

The Election Commission has deployed 220 companies of the Central Armed Police Forces, 35,626 personnel from the Delhi Police and 19,000 Home Guards to ensure peaceful polling, ANI reported.

Around 3,000 polling booths have also been identified as sensitive, where special security arrangements, including drone surveillance, have been arranged.

The national capital is winessing a three-way contest between the Aam Aadmi Party, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Among the prominent candidates in the fray is Aam Aam Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, who will be contesting against the BJP’s Parvesh Verma and Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit from the New Delhi Assembly constituency.

Chief Minister Atishi is contesting against BJP candidate Ramesh Bidhuri and the Congress’ Alka Lamba in Kalkaji.

The Jangpura seat will see a contest between Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia, BJP candidate Tarvinder Singh Marwah and the Congress’ Farhad Suri.

Key contenders for the Greater Kailash seat were Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi minister Saurabh Bhardwaj, the BJP’s Shikha Rai…

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