The BJP took 180 out of 270 wards after the counting of votes to MCD elections . The Congress gets 35 and AAP gets45. The counting began this morning across 35 centres in the Capital. The trends seemed to be in line with Sunday’s exit poll results that had predicted a huge win for the BJP in the civic polls.
The result published from the Delhi State Election Commission office in Kashmere Gate. Large screens have been installed at the SEC office to display the updates. Though the final results will be announced after 5pm, a decisive picture is expected to emerge . The polls saw a voter turnout of 53.58 per cent, only a notch higher than the 2012 MCD elections.
Half an hour after counting began for crucial local elections in Delhi, the Congress was celebrating the fact that it was in second place.
In the last state election in 2015, the party that governed Delhi for over a decade did not win a single seat. So it is seeing its performance today as a sort of comeback after a forced exile.
“I accept that there is a wave of the BJP,” said the party’s Kiran Walia, who has served as minister in the past. “People are giving votes to the BJP just because of Modi,” she said, crediting the strong indicators of a BJP victory to the Prime Minister.
“This is a very big jump for the Congress,” she said of the early leads today. The run-up to voting saw the Congress lose popular leaders like another former minister Arvinder Singh Lovely to the BJP.Several Congressmen voiced their unhappiness with the candidates selected by Ajay Maken, who heads the party in Delhi.
AAP has been pushed to a distant third.
