Delhi election: India's anti-corruption party's litmus test

Priyanka Gandhi (L), daughter of India's Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi, and her husband Robert Vadra arrive at a polling station to cast their votes for the Delhi state assembly election in New Delhi on December 4, 2013. Voters in New Delhi went to the polls to elect a new state assembly as a new Indian political party rooted in an anti-corruption movement that swept the country in 2011 faced its first electoral test December 4. (AFP)




Sunil Mittal, Chairman and group CEO of Bharti Enterprises, is searched by security personnel as he enters a polling station to cast his vote for the Delhi state assembly election in New Delhi on December 4, 2013. Voters in New Delhi went to the polls to elect a new state assembly as a new Indian political party rooted in an anti-corruption movement that swept the country in 2011 faced its first electoral test December 4. (AFP)

India's Congress Party Vice-President and son of Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi (2L) stands with others outside a polling station in New Delhi on December 4, 2013, ahead of casting his vote in state assembly elections. New Delhi,  Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and  Mizoram states  are all voting for new state assemblies and the results will be published simultaneously after counting on December 8. (AFP)

An elderly Indian voter is carried by relatives to a polling station for the Delhi state assembly election in New Delhi on December 4, 2013. Voters in New Delhi went to the polls to elect a new state assembly as a new Indian political party rooted in an anti-corruption movement that swept the country in 2011 faced its first electoral test December 4. (AFP)





India's Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi (R) and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit (C) arrive at a polling station to cast their votes in the Delhi state assembly election in New Delhi on December 4, 2013. Voters in New Delhi went to the polls to elect a new state assembly as a new Indian political party rooted in an anti-corruption movement that swept the country in 2011 faced its first electoral test December 4. (AFP)

Indian Aam Aadmi Party (Common Man's Party) leader Arvind Kejriwal (C) gestures with his ink-marked finger after casting his vote for the Delhi state assembly election in New Delhi on December 4, 2013. A new Indian political party rooted in an anti-corruption movement that swept the country in 2011 faced its first electoral test December 4 as voters in New Delhi elected a state assembly. (AFP)

A giant screen at Indian Gate counts down the hours to the Delhi Assembly election and urges people to vote in New Delhi on December 3, 2013. The Delhi Legislative Assembly election is scheduled to be held on December 4.   (AFP)

Indian polling officials check electoral materials on the eve of the Delhi Legislative Assembly election at a school being used as a polling station in New Delhi on December 3, 2013. The Delhi Legislative Assembly election is scheduled to be held on December 4. (AFP)

Voters line up in a queue outside a polling booth to cast their vote during the state assembly election in New Delhi December 4, 2013. (REUTERS)

A woman waits to cast her vote at a polling booth during the state assembly election in New Delhi December 4, 2013. (REUTERS)

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