(5 Feb 2025)
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New Delhi, India – 5 February 2025
1. Wide of Indian National Congress leader, Rahul Gandhi, arriving at polling station in New Delhi to cast his vote
2. Mid of security officials
3. Wide of Gandhi at a polling station
4. Wide of a voting centre
5. People walking into voting centre to vote
6. Various of people inside a voting centre registering and casting ballots
7. Mid of man waiting to enter voting centre
8. Man casting vote
9. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Meera (last name not given), voter:
“We want performance (development initiatives from the government) in everything. We want a sense of ownership. There is a problem with the sewer lines here, unauthorized constructions.”
10. Close of a voter’s finger being marked by official
11. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Basant Kumar, voter:
“Delhi’s security and development, we want these two things.”
12. Mid of voter walking away after voting
13. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Sakshi Sharma, voter:
“We expect (from the new government) everything to be good, security for women, all kinds of facilities for girls.”
14. Mid of poster outside polling station reading (English): "Vote for Delhi"
15. Poster reading (English): "Spirit of democracy"
STORYLINE:
Thousands began voting 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 walked to polling booths on a cold morning to cast their ballots across the sprawling capital.
Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party is up against the AAP (Aam Aadmi Party), 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 after he faced graft allegations.
The AAP won 62 out of 70 seats in a landslide victory in the last election, held in 2020, leaving BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) 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 on 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.
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