Vice president Hamid Ansari casts vote

Vice President Hamid Ansari on Saturday cast his vote in the Delhi assembly elections.

After casting his vote at Nirman Bhavan, Ansari showed his index finger with the voting mark and waved to the media. Polling for the 70-member Delhi assembly began at 8 a.m. amid tight security.Over 13.3 million voters are eligible to cast their ballot in a contest that has 673 candidates.
A total of 11,763 polling booths have been set up across Delhi. The main battle is between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), while the Congress will try to retain its tally of eight seats.