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Delhi Assembly Elections 2020 Live Updates: AAP winning by huge margin, says Manish Sisodia

THE TIMES OF INDIA | Feb 09, 2020, 11:50:24 IST

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Delhi Assembly Elections 2020 Live Updates: AAP winning by huge margin, says Manish Sisodia

Delhi recorded 61.46 per cent voter turnout on Saturday, down from 67.47 per cent in 2015 assembly elections. Exit polls predicted an easy win for AAP, which sought to retain power on development plank, against the BJP that ran an aggressive campaign centred around the issues of anti-CAA protests and nationalism. Stay updated with The Times of India to get all the live updates of Delhi assembly elections, constituency-wise poll percentage and more.

08:57 (IST) Feb 08

BJP MP Parvesh Verma casts his vote at a polling station in Matiala assembly constituency. (ANI)

08:54 (IST) Feb 08

After 45 minutes delay, voting has finally started at the CR Park booth.

08:53 (IST) Feb 08

Delhi polls: Know your way around a booth

08:51 (IST) Feb 08

Battle for Delhi: Voting begins amid tight security

The polling for the 70-member Delhi assembly got under way on Saturday morning, an election that saw the ruling AAP, opposition BJP and the Congress engaged in a bitterly fought high-octane campaign. Over 1.47 crore people are eligible to exercise their franchise in the polls that will decide the fate of 672 candidates.

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08:28 (IST) Feb 08

A queue of voters at a polling booth in Shaheen Public School in Shaheen Bagh, Okhla. (ANI)

08:27 (IST) Feb 08

External affairs minister S Jaishankar casts his vote at the polling station at Tuglak Cresent.

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08:25 (IST) Feb 08

Voting is yet to start at Raisina Bengali School at CR Park due to faulty EVMs. Polling at two out of four stations yet to start.

08:18 (IST) Feb 08

Arvind Kejriwal makes special appeal to women voters on polling day in the capital.

08:13 (IST) Feb 08

PM Modi urges people in Delhi to vote in record numbers.

08:06 (IST) Feb 08

BJP's Ram Madhav arrives at a polling station in Jhandewalan area in Karol Bagh.

08:02 (IST) Feb 08

Polling for 70 assembly constituencies in Delhi begins.

08:00 (IST) Feb 08

I am confident that in the next 5 years Delhi will have 'Saaf paani, saaf hawa aur saaf vyavhaar'.

BJP candidate from Krishna Nagar, Anil Goel

07:54 (IST) Feb 08

Delhi: Voters begin to arrive at the polling stations at Nirman Bhawan in New Delhi assembly constituency. (ANI)

07:49 (IST) Feb 08

"Today, people of Delhi will vote for better education and future for their children," ANI quotes deputy Manish Sisodia as saying.

07:41 (IST) Feb 08

Jamia Millia Islamia students move protest site for Delhi polls

Jamia Millia Islamia students who have been protesting at gate number 7 of the university have been shifted to gate 4 on the campus for the elections. The students have decided to continue their silent protest for the next two days from the new location. As per the decision taken on Thursday, Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) Jamia decided to shift the protest site to gate number 4 as the site was within 100m range of a polling booth.

07:35 (IST) Feb 08

Voters start arriving at a polling station in Jhandewalan area, in Karol Bagh assembly constituency

07:20 (IST) Feb 08

Visual from polling station 80 at Nirman Bhawan in New Delhi assembly constituency. CM and sitting MLA from the constituency, Arvind Kejriwal is contesting from here

07:16 (IST) Feb 08

For the first time, over 2 lakh 80+ and 50,000 disabled voters have also been offered the postal ballot facility, but less than 3,000 have registered themselves.

07:05 (IST) Feb 08

All five polling stations in Shaheen Bagh have been declared 'critical' by Delhi's Chief Electoral Officer

06:59 (IST) Feb 08

Pehle AAP? Delhi’s Muslims look to pick side to cancel out BJP in polls

Capital’s 25 lakh Muslims who want to hold back BJP know they have to choose between AAP and Congress. While Congress has leapt in to defend Muslims in the CAA-NRC resistance and police excesses, AAP has steered largely clear of the issue. For many voters, it is not just a tactical choice, there is a genuine satisfaction with AAP’s redistributive work.

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