Who Has Delhi Chosen? Counting Starts at 8 am: 10 Developments

An aggregate of seven exit polls after the election showed Mr Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) winning 42 seats in the 70-member house. A party needs 36 to form government.

The BJP and its presumptive chief minister Kiran Bedi have rejected those predictions. The party says it assesses that it will get 34 to 38 seats.

A record 67.14 per cent of Delhi's 1.3 crore voters voted in the elections held on Saturday.

If AAP wins today, it will return to power exactly a year after Arvind Kejriwal quit as chief minister over his anti-corruption bill, forcing president's rule in Delhi. He was chief minister for 49 days.

If AAP wins, it will be the first major setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the nine months since he won the national election. His party has said the Delhi election will not reflect on the Modi government's popularity.

The BJP has won most recently held state polls based on BJP chief Amit Shah's canny strategy, which has included mass outreach and a campaign that projects only one face, PM Modi.

The BJP changed that strategy for Delhi, where it has been out of power for 16 years. It projected Kiran Bedi, who said as exit polls predicted an AAP win that she will accept responsibility for her party's performance today.

"I have given it my all. In the past 17 days, whatever I got and was given is God's will. For any exam, when I've given my best then I get a sound sleep. The result is not in my hand, but karma is," Ms Bedi said on Monday, insisting that she was not nervous.

Her AAP counterpart Arvind Kejriwal was seen catching a movie on Sunday. He advised his party men to do the same in a tweet: "Volunteers. U did an amazing job. Relax for 2 days. Spend time wid ur family. Sleep. Watch movies. Meditate. Chill. God bless u."

The Congress, which ruled Delhi for 15 years till December 2013, has been projected to get even fewer seats than the eight it had won 13 months ago.