Delhi elections: Bollywood stars encourage voters, slam turnout & make predictions

The nation is keenly following the events as the epicentre of Indian politics, Delhi, went to polls on Saturday. Even the celebrities of the film industry shared their own take on it. Many of them urged the citizens to exercise their duty and vote, some lamented the poor voter turnout till afternoon, while others either directly or indirectly expressed their thoughts on who they feel will form the government.

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Be it to ‘vote wisely’, ‘vote against hate’, calling it a ‘5-year relationship’, sharing GIFs or stating that one wouldn’t have the right to criticise if one doesn’t vote, Anupam Kher, Richa Chadha, Konkona Sensharma, Aditi Rao Hydari and many others took to Twitter. 

Here are the tweets:

As the voter turnout percentages were reported, said to be under 25 per cent, till the afternoon, some like Atul Kasbekar, Rahul Mahajan and Anil Sharma were not pleased and urged the voters to go out and exercise their franchise. 

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While confusion looms as to which party will successfully form the government in Delhi, Anubhav Sinha was confident that CM Arvind Kejriwal will retain his chair, Hansal Mehta and Saqib Saleem used wordplay to express who they felt will win. Actor-politician Khushbu Sundar wanted the voters to bring Delhi back to its glory and urged them to vote for #CongressWaliDelhi. 

Here are the tweets:

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Taapsee Pannu was among the few from the film industry to vote in her hometown. 

Earlier in the day, CM Arvind Kejriwal, BJP Delhi President Manoj Tiwari, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and her husband Robert Vadra were spotted at the polling booths. 

Delhites are voting for 70 seats of the Legislative Assembly. After the conclusion of the voting hours in the evening, the exit polls are set to be unveiled by various agencies on who’s likely to win. The results are scheduled to be announced on February 11. 

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