Delhi go for civic polls

Delhiites are not eager to vote and their daily life is busy commuting from office to home.MCD polls on April 15 with  cozy temperatures at ease to  seal the electoral fate of 2,400 candidates when people hit the polling booths on Sunday to elect councilors for the newly-carved Trio- municipal bodies in the capital.

Election is seen as a litmus test for ensuing of next year’s Assembly polls. The campaign ended at an unusual time of 5:30 AM on Saturday.

Political parties and candidates, a large chunk of them independents, spent a sleepless night wooing voters at the last minute.The counting of votes will take place on Tuesday. The polls to the three civic bodies – East, North and South—carved out from Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is crucial for Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit, and the opposition BJP, as the Assembly elections is just 18 months away.

The State Election Commission has made elaborate arrangements for Sunday’s polling by deploying around 70, 000 officials for conducting the polls and over 30,000 police personnel for security.