The New Delhi constituency will see one of the most intense battles with former chief minister and party supremo Arvind Kejriwal as the AAP candidate.

If things go as per the exit polls, the BJP will swing back to power in Delhi after a gap of 27 years. The favourable exit poll results have already spread cheer in the BJP camp, where senior leaders are vying to be part of the double-engine government in the national capital.

Incumbent Aam Aadmi Party on the back foot because of voter fatigue, but analysts predict a ‘much tougher fight’ between the parties.

Voting was underway on Wednesday in Delhi, the union territory that includes the capital of India, New Delhi, to decide the 70 members of its legislative assembly in a tight election whose results are scheduled to be declared on Saturday.

Two exit polls released on Wednesday gave BJP an edge over AAP in the Delhi assembly polls, one of the four analysed here gave the incumbent a third consecutive decisive mandate and another gave BJP an even clearer win.