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BJP set to win polls in Delhi, 3 states

AAP, a new party rooted in anti-graft movement, gains big success in Delhi

Our Correspondent, New Delhi
India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party was yesterday poised to win four state legislature elections by inflicting a defeat on the ruling Congress party.
But the biggest success story of the polls was the stunning performance by a political party born out of countrywide anti-graft agitation in 2011.
BJP wrested power from Congress in Rajasthan and retained control of power in adjacent Madhya Pradesh with an emphatic
majority, but fell short of majority mark in the 70-member Delhi assembly and is locked in a neck and neck race in Chhattisgarh state where the saffron party is slightly ahead in terms of number of seats.
Officials were expected to tally the votes late last night in the elections held in recent weeks in Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh states.
Much of Delhi's election excitement has been sparked by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), rooted in an anti-corruption movement that SEE PAGE 10 COL 4
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swept India in 2011, that made its political debut. The party, whose symbol is a broom, emerged as the second largest party in Delhi just behind BJP and relegating Congress to a distant third place.
The icing on the cake is that AAP chief 44-year-old Arvind Kejriwal, a former income tax inspector, whose party had campaigned on the plank of anticorruption, has defeated three-time Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit by 22,000 votes in New Delhi assembly constituency.
The elections to the four states are seen by political observers as a dry run ahead of national elections expected early next year.
Voter's disenchantment with Congress-led UPA government, which has ruled India for nearly a decade, on issues of inflation and alleged corruption and an economy growing at a decade low of five percent are believed to have generated a groundswell of BJP support.
The assembly polls outcome is considered a big boost to BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi who had campaigned hard in the state elections.
On the other hand, Congress was quick to shield its leader Rahul Gandhi, who too had campaigned, from the fallout of electoral defeat, saying it should not be seen as a Rahul-vs-Modi contest.