The North-East district of the city, which is home to several unauthorised colonies, inhabited by migrants from different States, largely from Bihar, Eastern UP, and Uttarakhand, recorded the highest polling percentage at 69.96 .
The area also has a large concentration of Muslim voters. Voters in the Muslim-dominated constituencies - Seemapuri, Seelampur, Mustafabad and Babarpur- had queued up in large numbers before the booths when the polling began at 8 a.m. However, the polling in the middle class-dominated colonies started on a dull note, but picked up later.
In the Muslim-dominated constituencies voters were generally heard talking about pressing the “Jhadu button”. The Congress looked far behind in these constituencies, going by the gathering of voters around its tables put up for distributing voters’ slips.
The presence of BJP workers outside the polling stations for facilitating their voters was few and far between in these constituencies.
In fact, there was no worker of this party outside many of the polling booths .
The response of the BJP workers also looked lukewarm towards the polling. Outside one polling booth in the Gokulpur constituency, a middle-aged man was heard telling two BJP workers that 90 per cent of voters have voted for the AAP.
Later, the BJP workers admitted that there were not too many supporters among the voters queuing up outside this particular booth because they had already voted in the morning.
“The party have committed voters and we had done whatever was required to mobilise them in the last four-five days.”
Young voters were particularly seen rooting for the AAP, donning white caps without the party symbol. Many of the voters, who had voted for the BJP in 2013 Assembly elections, went for the AAP this time.
Two young voters were heard telling a poll survey company doing exit poll for a television channel that in the last Assembly elections they had voted for the BJP, but they had pressed the broom button this time .
However, many elderly persons were mobilising voters for the BJP, arguing that Mr. Kejriwal would again take recourse to dharna politics if voted to power.
There were several other voters who voted for either the BJP or the Congress saying that they have been the traditional supporters of these two parties.
