{"id":340788,"date":"2022-12-06T00:53:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=340788"},"modified":"2022-12-06T06:57:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T12:27:30","slug":"aap-looks-poised-to-sweep-mcd-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/aap-looks-poised-to-sweep-mcd-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"AAP looks poised to sweep MCD polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi : Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is all set to sweep the civic polls held in Delhi on December 4, and end BJP&#8217;s 15-year stronghold in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), as per the exit poll findings of different agencies released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to India Today-Axis My India survey, in the 250-ward MCD, the AAP is projected to win 149-171 wards, followed BJP at 69-91, Congress at 3-7, while others may get 5-9 seats.<\/p>\n<p>In Chandani Chowk, which has 30 wards, 20 may go to AAP while BJP is projected to win 10 wards.<\/p>\n<p>In East Delhi, where there are 36 wards, AAP may win 22, followed by BJP at 14.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 25 wards in New Delhi, AAP may win 21 followed by BJP at 4.<\/p>\n<p>The exit poll further predicted that of the 41 wards in North-East district, 21 will go to BJP, followed by AAP at 17, Congress at 2, while 1 ward will go to others.<\/p>\n<p>As per the India Today exit poll, AAP is set to get 43 per cent of vote share while 35 per cent votes will go the BJP. Congress will finish a distant third with 10 per cent vote share.<\/p>\n<p>India News-Jan Ki Baat exit poll gave AAP 159-175 wards, while the BJP is projected to win 70-92 wards.<\/p>\n<p>The Times Now exit poll predicted AAP winning between 146 and 156 wards, followed by BJP at 84-94 wards. The exit poll projected Congress to win just 11 wards.<\/p>\n<p>The Zee News-BARC exit poll projected AAP to get 134-146 wards, while 82-94 wards will be won by the BJP. Congress is likely to win 8-14 wards while others will win 14-19 wards.<\/p>\n<p>The MCD elections held on Sunday had witnessed a low voter turnout of 50 per cent. The results will be declared on December 7.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP has been in power in the MCD since 2007. AAP looks poised to sweep MCD elections<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi : Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is all set to sweep the civic polls held in Delhi on December 4, and end BJP&#8217;s 15-year stronghold in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), as per the exit poll findings of different agencies released on Monday. According to India Today-Axis My India survey, in the 250-ward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":340789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340790,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340788\/revisions\/340790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/340789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}