Residents lined up in long queues across New Delhi neighbourhoods, where a total of 14.6 million voters are registered to cast ballots. Modis BJP also hopes to garner Hindu votes for ending semi-autonomy of Muslim-majority Kashmir last summer and turning the disputed region into two federally governed territories amid security lock down. Surveys by television news channels have predicted a clear victory for the Aam Admi Party in the 70-member state assembly. Modi’s BJP was voted out of power in New Delhi in 1998 by the Congress party, which had run the government for 15 years. In the 2015 elections, the Aam Admi Party won a landslide victory by capturing 67 of 70 seats.

Source: Pakistan Today February 08, 2020 08:37 UTC