Elderly, first timers flock in large numbers to vote

Delhi voters including elderly and first timers flocked in large numbers today to elect their representatives for the 70-member assembly.
While moderate polling was witnessed in the early hours, polling gained momentum post noon across the city.
During the early hours, mostly the elderly and middle aged voters were seen queuing outside the polling booths.
In several areas, workers from political parties, mainly Congress, BJP and AAP, were seen outside the booths in good numbers matching the security men at polling stations.
Some young voters were seen using social network sites to share their "first time" experience with inked fingers at the polling booths immediately after casting votes. However, they were told politely by policemen to leave the booth premises.

Since the government declared the polling day as a holiday, traffic was thin on all major roads.

It was an early turnout of voters in Mayur Vihar as many poll booths in the area witnessed casting of votes since the word go.
Polling in the posh Vasant Kunj locality of Mehrauli constituency picked up around 12.30 pm.
Congress contestant Yoganand Shastri is contesting against BJP's Pravesh Verma, son of former Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma in this constituency with Aam Aadmi Party's Narender Sejwal and BSP's Surender Panwar seeking to alter nature of the political contest in this assembly seat.

Striving to achieve 100 percent voting, Resident Welfare Associations of D-7 and D-8 in Vasant Kunj put up a stall to help the voters reach their voting venues and get clarity about their voter slips.
Rajesh Panwar, one of RWA member participating in the camp, complained that despite being a posh colony, a number of voters are yet to have either a voting slip or an election photo identity card.
"We are here to fight out the perception that voters in upscale localities like Vasant Kunj do not vote and the result is by 1 pm, almost 50 per cent of odd 2000 voters from D 7 and D 8 have already voted by now," he said.