People in India's capital city Delhi are voting in elections to pick a new local government, which comes after a bitter campaign by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and challenger - the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The country's main opposition Congress party has remained mostly off the spotlight in the race for control of the Delhi government.
Over 1.47 crore voters face the choice of re-electing Kejriwal or replacing it with the BJP or the Congress party.
As of 2 pm, the voter turnout was recorded at 27.9 per cent, a huge 14 per cent drop since 2015.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's AAP went into the election with the tough task of matching its 2015 tally, when it won 67 of 70 seats in an unprecedented sweep. Mr Kejriwal fronted his campaign with his work on fixing the city's hospitals and schools and promising a host of new welfare measures.
After voting this morning, Mr Kejriwal made a special appeal to women to come out in large numbers and vote.
Determined to unseat Mr Kejriwal is the BJP, which hopes to build on its performance in the 2019 parliamentary polls when it won all seven Lok Sabha seats.
The party, which has not yet named a contender for the Chief Minister's job, has called Mr Kejriwal a "terrorist" who makes false promises and sides with "anti-national" elements.
The Congress, which ruled Delhi for 15 years before being decimated by the AAP, has led a relatively lacklustre campaign. The party's top leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have barely campaigned for its candidates. (NDTV website)
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