Live Updates | MCD Exit Polls predict massive win for BJP, with AAP and Congress far behind

It’s dangerous to believe in exit polls, but if were to suspend our disbelief for a while, it seems like the BJP is going to rule supreme in the Delhi’s civic bodies. According to ABP News exit polls, BJP is set to secure 218, AAP 24 and Congress 22 wards. While the Axis India Today Exit Poll predicts that BJP will win 202-220 seats, AAP 23-35 seats and Congress languishing at the last place with 19-31 seats.  This mini-referendum shows that there is a tooth and nail fight for the second place while BJP is completely in a different league leading the pack.

Voting began on Sunday morning for the Delhi municipal polls to 272 wards in which the ruling BJP is locked in a triangular battle with the Congress and the AAP.

Both the BJP and the Congress have exuded confidence about winning the electoral battle while the AAP is seeking to replicate its 2015 Assembly elections performance, despite suffering a debacle in the Rajouri Garden bypoll.

Polling began at 8 am amid tight security arrangements across the city.

Out of the 13,022 polling stations, the police have declared 3,284 as sensitive and 1,464 as hyper-sensitive.

For the first time in MCD elections, None Of The Above (NOTA) option has been made available.

Assuring a win for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls, Congress turncoat Arvind Singh Lovely on Sunday said that he joined the saffron bandwagon because of its sincere and dedicated intentions to serve the people. ‘The BJP is laying the foundation of a new corporation with an idea of clean politics. And this is why I have joined this party. Today history will be made, as no party on the face of Indian politics has taken such a decision where it has changed its entire political leadership. I believe that BJP will win with majority in all three MCDs,’ said Lovely.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took on the State Election Commission claiming that reports of "faulty" EVMs were pouring in from across the national capital on polling day. The Aam Aadmi Party supremo also alleged that many voters with valid voter slips were "not allowed" to exercise their franchise in the municipal polls. Kejriwal had earlier demanded that the election be postponed till arrangements for VVPAT-equipped electronic voting machines (EVMs) were made.