Exit polls suggest a big defeat for right-wing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party in New Delhi elections
Voters in New Delhi, India wait to cast their vote outside a polling booth during the state assembly election on February 8, 2020.
Saturday's New Delhi legislative elections pit Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party against the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party, or “common man's” party, whose pro-poor policies focused on fixing state-run schools and providing cheap electricity, free health care and bus transport for women during its five years in power.
With nearly 60 percent of the votes counted, the Aam Admi Party, or AAP, was leading in 58 of the 70 constituencies and the BJP in 12, according to the Election Commission. The Congress party, led by Sonia Gandhi, was facing a major loss.
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