{"id":352211,"date":"2025-02-05T02:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T08:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=352211"},"modified":"2025-02-05T02:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T08:27:55","slug":"key-leaders-citizens-cast-votes-to-seal-delhis-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/key-leaders-citizens-cast-votes-to-seal-delhis-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Key leaders, citizens cast votes to seal Delhi’s fate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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President of India Droupadi Murmu,\u00a0Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, senior leaders including Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal have voted today in the polls for 70 Assembly seats in the national capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voting for the Delhi assembly elections began at 7 am today, and will continue till 6 pm across 13,766 polling stations in the city, with AAP, Congress, and BJP contesting to clinch the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are 70 assembly constituencies which will decide the fates of 699 candidates. Around 1.56 crore citizens are eligible to vote in the city, including 83.76 lakh men, 72.36 lakh women, and 1,267 individuals from the third gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of 19.95 voter turnout was recorded till 11 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President of India Droupadi Murmu voted in the Delhi assembly elections. She cast her vote at the polling station in Dr. Rajendra Prasad Kendriya Vidyalaya inside Rashtrapati Bhavan complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar also reached the polling station to cast his vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMatdaan’ is the biggest ‘daan’, it is the oxygen, foundation of democracy. It is the mother of all rights. The importance of democracy is when everyone votes with freedom. It helps democracy. India is an example to the world, it is the oldest, largest, strongest, vibrant democracy… This right is with every citizen. When India got freedom, this right was given, when most of the democratic countries didn’t have this arrangement. Today I consider it as a festival of democracy. The way election commission is organising, the whole world is in awe. The technique that we adopted, where results are declared fast, the whole world is appreciating. Everyone should exercise this right,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city also witnessed a casting of votes by various prominent and strong candidates from New Delhi constituency all, including Sandeep Dikshit, Arvind Kejriwal, Parvesh Verma along with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday, in the great festival of democracy, I voted for a developed Delhi along with my family. I appeal to all my brothers, sisters, young friends, mothers and elders of Delhi and New Delhi to vote in maximum and elect a good governance in the state,\u201d he wrote on a micro blogging site X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AAP national convener and former chief minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal reached the polling station at Lady Irwin Senior Secondary School, along with his parents, wife, and son to cast his vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sitting MLA from New Delhi constituency faces a contest from Congress’ Sandeep Dikshit and BJP’s Parvesh Verma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u201dToday we have to defeat the politics of lies, hatred and fear and make truth, development and honesty win. Vote yourself and also inspire your family, friends and neighbours. Hooliganism will lose, Delhi will win,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Priyanka Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, and Rahul Gandhi also reached out to the polling station to cast their votes in the ongoing elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 30,000 police personnel and 220 companies of paramilitary forces have been deployed across Delhi to ensure a fair and smooth voting process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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