Elections in Delhi were held on February 5. Benchmark stock market indices settled marginally lower on Wednesday and were trading in the red on Thursday as well.

Exit polls for the Delhi Election 2025 suggest a fierce competition between the AAP and BJP, with AAP potentially securing 40-42 seats, while BJP might win 36-40 seats. Congress is unlikely to make a significant impact.

Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party is pitted against the Aam Aadmi Party, led by Arvind Kejriwal, which runs Delhi and has built a vast support base on its popular welfare policies and an anti-corruption movement.

NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party was trying to regain power in the federal territory that includes New Delhi on Wednesday as residents voted in a state legislature election. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party hasn’t won the territory that includes India’s capital of 20 million people in over a quarter-century.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP party is set to win an election in the Delhi capital territory, TV exit polls projected on Wednesday, in a rebound after its surprisingly poor showing in a general election last year.