Before the dust settled on the last day of campaigning for the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi on Thursday, political parties and candidates pulled out all the stops to woo voters in the city that will go to polls on May 25.
The lead-up to the electoral battle in Delhi saw a direct face-off between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and INDIA bloc partners Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress, marking a departure from the usual triangular contest seen in the past 10 years. Both sides exuded confidence of winning all seven seats.
As candidates in their respective constituencies conducted rallies and roadshows, the battle boiled down to a contest between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The Congress, hoping for a resurgence in Delhi a decade after it was pushed out of the Capital by AAP, managed to convince its party workers that they were fighting a larger battle to save democracy and the Constitution by entering into an alliance with AAP.
The Congress and AAP are fighting the polls under a 3-4 seat-sharing pact. A total of 162 candidates are in the fray with the maximum contesting from the North East Delhi constituency.