(5 Feb 2025)
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New Delhi – 5 February 2025
1. Various of Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal with his family arriving at polling station
2. Various of Kejriwal voting
3. Close of sign reading (English): “Election Commission of India voting compartment”
4. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Arvind Kejriwal, Aam Aadmi Party:
"Use your right to vote to build good schools, to build good mohalla clinics (community clinic), for good treatment, for hospitals, for the development of Delhi."
5. Wide of man voting, other voters registering to vote
6. Mid of voters standing in line to vote
7. Mid of a woman voting
8. Mid of voters posing for a photo
9. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Bharat Ratan Gupta, Businessman:
“It is a very tight contest. I have voted against corruption. We should vote for the leader who works for the progress of the local region as well as for the nation. A leader who gives priority to the people, not himself.”
10. Various of polling agents on desks near a polling station
11. Wide of police standing guard as voter enters polling station
12. Various of people walking towards a polling station, people leaving after voting
13. Police directing an elderly person towards polling room
14. Wide of security personnel visiting a polling station for checking
STORYLINE:
Thousands voted in the Indian capital’s state legislature election on Wednesday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party trying to unseat a powerful regional group that has ruled New Delhi for over a decade.
Voters went to polling booths on a cold, wintry day to cast their ballots across the sprawling capital. Manish Sisodia, a key Aam Aadmi Party leader, and others offered prayers in a temple before voting.
Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party is up against the AAP, led by Arvind Kejriwal, which runs New Delhi and has built a vast support base on its welfare policies and an anti-corruption movement.
Kejriwal, a popular crusader against corruption, suffered a setback as he himself faced graft allegations.
The AAP won 62 out of 70 seats in a landslide victory in the last election, held in 2020. leaving BJP with only eight and the Congress party with none. The AAP had also swept the 2015 state elections, winning 67 seats, with the BJP taking three.
Modi and Kejriwal have both campaigned vigorously in roadshows with thousands of supporters tailing them.
They have offered to revamp government schools and provide free health services and electricity, and a monthly stipend of over 2,000 rupees ($25) to poor women.
Voting ends later Wednesday, with results due on Saturday. More than 15 million people are eligible to vote in New Delhi’s election.
Delhi, a city of more than 20 million people, is a federal territory that Modi’s party has not won for over 27 years despite having a sizable support base there.
Kejriwal and other AAP leaders recently faced graft allegations in a liquor license case.
Kejriwal was arrested last year along with two key leaders of his party ahead of national elections on charges of receiving bribes from a liquor distributor. They have consistently denied the accusations, saying they are part of a political conspiracy. The Supreme Court allowed the release of Kejriwal and other ministers on bail.
Kejriwal later relinquished the chief minister’s post to his most senior party leader.
The BJP, which failed to secure a majority on its own in last year’s national election but formed the government with coalition partners, has gained some lost ground by winning two state elections in northern Haryana and western Maharashtra states.
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