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Delhi election LIVE updates : TV exits polls predicted the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will return to power in Delhi after elections ended on Saturday with more than 55 per cent turnout. If AAP retains power, it will be the third straight electoral setback for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which lost power in Jharkhand and Maharashtra last year. The BJP last formed a government in Delhi in 1998 and its campaign was marked by controversial speeches. Junior finance minister Anurag Thakur was barred from campaigning by the Election Commission after he exhorted crowds to shoot so-called traitors to the nation, alluding to those protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act. The city saw at least three shooting attacks near the protest site ahead of the poll. The Congress, India’s main Opposition party, relied on the influence of a set of high-profile candidates and the legacy of its leader Sheila Dikshit, who governed the city for 15 years before being voted out in 2013. Delhi electio...

Voting for the high-stakes Delhi assembly election will take place tomorrow. There are 672 candidates in fray for 70 Assembly seats. Over 14.7 million total voters in various categories include males (8.105236 million), females (6.680277 million), service voters (11,608), third gender voters (869), and senior citizens (aged 80 and above) voters (204,830), according to Delhi CEO Office. Polling will be held in a single phase on February 8 and the results will be declared on February 11. Marked by the BJP aggressively raising the anti-CAA protests in Shaheen Bagh as a poll issue, the AAP hard-selling development and the Congress conspicuous by its near absence, the bitter, often divisive and vitriolic campaign for the Delhi elections ended on Thursday. Delhi election: Holiday notification: In a move to encourage people to vote in the upcoming Delhi Assembly Election 2020, the central government has declared February 8 (Saturday) as a paid holiday in Delhi. As per a notificati...