New Delhi: As the civic polls in the national capital are underway for 250 wards, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Manoj Tiwari has alleged the names of 450 voters in Subhash Mohalla ward were deleted from the voter’s list. The BJP MP blamed the Aam Aadmi Party for striking off the names of these 450 voters because they supported the saffron party. 


“In Subash Mohalla ward, names of 450 voters have been deleted from the voters list because they support BJP,” he said. 


Calling it a “big conspiracy by the Delhi government”, Tiwari said that he will complain against this and appeal for cancellation of these polls and demand re-election. 






Meanwhile, Delhi Congress president Anil Chaudhary claimed that he found his name missing from the voters' list when he arrived at the polling booth to cast his vote for the MCD elections on Sunday.


As per the State Election Commission, 18 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 12 noon today. 


The ongoing polls will be the first civic elections in Delhi after the fresh delimitation exercise, and the voting is being held days after the first phase of the Gujarat assembly elections, and a day ahead of its second phase. There were 272 wards in Delhi and three corporations — NDMC, SDMC and EDMC — in Delhi from 2012-2022, before being reunified into an MCD which has 250 wards.


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Poll authorities have set up 13,638 polling stations across Delhi for the exercise. According to data shared by the State Election Commission (SEC) officials, the total number of voters in Delhi is 1,45,05,358 -- 78,93,418 males, 66,10,879 females, and 1,061 transgender persons. 


Over 1.45 crore electors are eligible to exercise their franchise in the elections to the 250 wards of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, in which 1,349 candidates are in the fray.