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New Delhi: Counting of votes for the high-profile Delhi Assembly polls in which BJP and AAP are locked in a direct fight will be taken up today and final results are likely to be available by 1 PM.
Delhi Election Commission has made elaborate arrangements for counting of the ballots which will take place in 14 Centres across the city under tight security. “Counting of votes will start at 8 AM and all the results should be out by 1 PM,” an Election Commis-sion official said.
The battle to win control over the city saw a resurgent Aam Aadmi Party giving a tough fight to the BJP. All the exit polls have given AAP a decisive edge over BJP with one of them giving it as high as 53 seats in the 70-member House.
The BJP has rejected the exit polls and exuded confidence of wresting power in Delhi after a gap of 16 years
. The party yesterday said it would get 34-38 seats. A record 67.14 per cent turnout was recorded in the polls on Saturday in which a total of 673 candidates. Polling had taken place at 12,177 polling stations, of which 714 have been identified as “critical”. Of these, 191 are “highly critical”.(PTI)

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